Summary
Having to revive that incident, play-for-play, proved difficult, says [Billy Jackson] -- especially as he made some attempt to objectively portray what the police did from their perspective. The film depicts Brentwood police Sgt. John Vojtas launching what appears to be an almost unprovoked attack. Says Jackson, "It was almost a foregone conclusion as to what was going to happen next -- it's hard to disassociate yourself from the other cops, too. It's easier to think about how they acted, and how they covered Vojtas' back."
"Here you got five guys on top of [JONNY GAMMAGE], who was only 160-something pounds, only 5-foot-7," says Jackson, who labored for 10 years producing the documentary. "Then you got Vojtas who got bit in his thumb. Why did he get bit?" Jackson surmises it's because "his hand was on Gammage's mouth, not on his wrists trying to get him handcuffed.""A lot of the veneer has changed, but very little of the core of our judicial or law enforcement problems has changed," says Jackson. "There's still politics involved, and there's still the racism that exists.See the full content of this document
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Framing the Debate
JONNY GAMMAGE, the subject of local filmmaker Billy Jackson's documentary Enough Is Enough, wasn't the first black man in Pittsburgh to leave a police encounter in a body bag, and was far from the last.
In the 10 years following Gammage's death on Oct. 12, 1995...See the full content of this document
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