![]() ![]() ![]() It sifts through the rubble to unearth the real story behind the war on drugs one with roots in the San Francisco Bay Area and a drug ring that sold tons of cocaine to South Central gangs at the onset of the crack cocaine era one that funneled millions in drugs profits to the Central Intelligence Agency to fund anti-communist allies in Nicaragua. It digs deeper into what Webb broke ground on undoing the damage that started with the media turning its back on a story too hot for it to handle ending with the death of a career and later a great reporter. “Freeway: Crack in the System” takes the feature film, “Kill the Messenger” to the next level-a very intimate one-as only a documentary can. That voice was silenced just 15 days later and would stay silent for 10 years. I was a reporter for a local paper and listening to him talk about breaking a story so big that the fallout ultimately ruined his career-but not his spirit-revealed the determination he still had to tell his story. I remember the 80s well and the growing war on drugs that I would not know the true depth of until I met Gary Webb on Thanksgiving Day in 2004. A native “Angelino,” I grew up in the Hollywood hills and started my first business less than 5 miles away from one of the most notorious parts of the city-South Central Los Angeles. ![]()
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