Congress' ban on the support of the Contras. Nicaraguan drugs were soon flooding South Central Los Angeles, but Rick was unaware at the time that he had become the central player in the so-called CIA-Contra-Cocaine Controversy, because FBI and police busts were starting to link the Contras and drugs as part of the U.S. Through the story of his early days selling drugs and his introduction to a new supplier, Nicaraguan drug trafficker Oscar Danilo Blandon Reyes, Rick and his friends are soon transformed from low-level street hustlers to major dealers. His story defies all odds and stereotypes and proves that truth is indeed stranger than fiction.Featuring exclusive interviews with the people who lived at the center of the story, FREEWAY: CRACK IN THE SYSTEM chronicles the extraordinary rise, fall and redemption of Freeway Rick Ross, the man considered responsible for ushering crack cocaine into Los Angeles and ultimately across the United States in the '80s and '90s. He's 'Freeway' Rick Ross, the man who stood at the center of the crack epidemic, and whose name has been inextricably linked to the CIA-Contra-Cocaine connection. He's an urban legend in South Central LA, a black godfather figure whom most people have never seen, but know by name and reputation.
Featuring exclusive interviews with Freeway Rick Ross, not to be confused with the rapper who took his name Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Gary Webb, his source Coral Baca, and wife Susan Webb former Los Angeles Deputy Sheriff Roberto Juarez drug trafficker Julio Zavala and many more.
At the center of it all is the rise, fall and redemption of Freeway Rick Ross, a street hustler who became the King of Crack, and journalist Gary Webb, who broke the story of the CIA's complicity in the drug war.
Untouchable, Brick City) exposes how the infiltration of crack cocaine destroyed inner-city neighborhoods across the country. This documentary by award-winning filmmaker Marc Levin (SLAM, Mr. Request or report via email: Theater mode Light Off Storyline: Freeway: Crack in the System (2015) FREEWAY: CRACK IN THE SYSTEM tells the story of broken dreams, drug dealers, dirty cops, and government complicity-more compelling than fiction, it's the real story behind America's longest war.
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