Throughout the film are interviews with Freeway Rick and his crew, including his mother Anne Ross, former girlfriend and drug dealer Marilyn Stubblefield, and former dealers Cornell Ward, Ollie Newell, and Norman Tillman. The subjects reveal a crack in the system that implicates the centers of power in our government, their mass incarceration policies and militarization of police, the spread of gangs and guns, and the loss of entire generations to the war on drugs.įreeway Rick - not to be confused with the Miami rapper, Rick Ross, who took the Los Angeles dealer's name and identity - built a drug empire that spread crack cocaine across the country, ruining millions of lives but profoundly influencing street culture in its wake.
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. More compelling than fiction, it's the real story behind America's war on drugs. FREEWAY: CRACK IN THE SYSTEM tells the story of broken dreams, drug dealers, dirty cops, and government complicity.
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