Killing of Winston Boogie Smith (June 2021, Minneapolis)

In the summer of 2021, just a year after Minneapolis became the center of a global reckoning over policing, another fatal encounter unfolded in a city still healing. The Killing of Winston Boogie Smith follows the events of June 3, 2021, when a U.S. Marshals task force attempted to arrest a 32-year-old man in a public parking ramp — and ended his life within seconds. What happened in that brief exchange remains one of the most disputed police shootings of the decade. Told through forensic reconstruction and eyewitness memory, this three-chapter documentary retraces the pursuit, the absence of body-camera footage, and the storm of mistrust that followed. It’s a story about silence — what wasn’t seen, what wasn’t recorded, and how the lack of proof reshaped a community’s belief in justice. From the ramp in Uptown Minneapolis to the offices of federal investigators, the series examines the system that allowed an arrest without cameras in a city still haunted by George Floyd’s death — and asks how truth survives when evidence doesn’t.