Do Not Resist

A documentary about the increasing use of military weapons and tactics by local law enforcement in the United States, counterpointed with civil unrest in Ferguson, Missouri following the shooting of Michael Brown in 2014.

This event also includes a screening of the short film “Conditioned Response” about how ex-Army Ranger and “killology” expert Dave Grossman has been traveling across the US to train police officers on his philosophy of killing. Footage from one of Grossman’s seminars is juxtaposed with stark, brutal images of police brutality—including the shooting of Philando Castile by a Minnesota police officer, and the short film “The Hunted and the Hated” about the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy.

Part of the Policing Justice series by the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art.