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MSNBC's Explosive Docu-Series Examines Teaneck After White Officer Killed Black Teen MSNBC's Explosive Docu-Series Examines Teaneck After White Officer Killed Black Teen
MSNBC's Explosive Docu-Series Examines Teaneck After White Officer Killed Black Teen A Bergen County town is the focus of a four-part docu-series by MSNBC examining race. "Model America" examines America's complicated relationship with race through the lens of people in Teaneck, a "racial utopia" turned unlikely ground zero for the modern Black Lives Matter movement. Particularly, the series focuses on the township's climate after 16-year-old Phillip Pannell was shot and killed by officer Gary Spath in April 1990. The series' co-director and executive producer Dani Goffstein is a Teaneck native, who felt the township felt "oddly segregated," despite being a dive…

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by Cecilia Levine