This is a CBC podcast.

In the summer of 2020, I watched the biggest protest movement in American history

inspired the belief that change might finally arise.

The Black Lives Matter movement felt like a reckoning.

But despite that energy and all of the conversation inspired,

there remained little mention of one of the most disproportionate uses of police violence in American history.

We will never get a chance to embrace our children and hug them and kiss them because they're not here,

because this government took them away from us.

On Mother's Day 1985, the city of Philadelphia did something unthinkable to its own citizens on its own soil.

I got to call around three o'clock in the morning.

Lin, get over here, it's going down. Click.

For more than a decade, the city had been engaged in a standoff with a radical organization called Move.

In the Philadelphia Police Department, we're now here to resolve the move question for good.

The police commissioner gets on his bullhorn and says, attention move, this is America.

You have to abide by the laws and rules of America.

There were so many bullets in that morning shootout that they were ricocheting off the sidewalk like hell.

And then the helicopter takes off, it flies around, it circles, and then you hear an explosion and the neighborhood shook so violently.

I mean, it seemed like the ground move.

The city of Philadelphia dropped a bomb on Move's headquarters.

A house in the heart of a residential community, a black community, killing 11 people, five of them children, and burning 61 homes to the ground.

My daughters were taken away by the government. They thought the bomb!

Their aim was to kill us, plain and simple.

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