
Reggie Yates' Extreme: USA - Race Riots
A year after Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, Reggie Yates travels to the small Bible Belt town to see what changed. He talks to residents who lived through the rioting that followed Brown's death, sits down with young people who became activists almost overnight, and rides along with new police recruits going through training in the aftermath. Yates asks locals directly whether Ferguson can heal, and keeps returning to the gap between what the police department says it is doing and what African-American residents say they still experience: stops, searches, and suspicion that predate Brown's death by decades. The film moves between community meetings, family homes, and police facilities, letting both new recruits and longtime residents speak for themselves. It is one entry in Yates' Extreme series, which sends him into flashpoint communities around the world, and this episode stays close to the people left living in Ferguson once the news cameras moved on.