Not P but "We are always a mob waiting to happen"

[Allan Balliett]

Death in the Terminal is a recent documentary made by an Israeli couple
about that horrible event that happened after a terroris attack on a bus
terminal in Israel in 2015. A security guard shot an innocent man and a
crowd gathered and over a half an hour's time beat the innocent man to
death through some very awkward methods.

This is a film about just what the hell ordinary descent people were
thinking when the took the law into their own hands and happened to make
that big mistake we rely on The Law to help us avoid.

What revealed about human beings in this event and this film is, well,
complicated.

The reason I'm posting this is that, for a short time, the documentary is
sub titled and streaming here; https://www.topic.com/death-in-the-terminal

Death in the Terminal
A terrorist attack at an Israeli bus terminal in 2015 provides the basis of
this award-winning documentary. But be warned: Not all is what it seems.
Death in the Terminal is a film that will cause you to question how people
interpret the world around them, and the costs of their underlying biases.
“No documentary I’ve ever seen captures ‘fear of the other’ as viscerally
as Death in the Terminal,” says one of the film’s executive producers, Mark
Boal. “It shows what terror does to us, and makes evident in ways large and
small the toll these attacks have taken on us as human beings, and how we
risk losing not just perspective, but our humanity.”
It took filmmakers Tali Shemesh and Asaf Sudry just six months to make the
film. The husband-and-wife team had decided to try to tell the story of
what happened — or didn’t happen — in the Be’er Sheva bus station
immediately after the attack occurred, but were thwarted by police refusals
to share information, including footage confiscated from the numerous
security cameras inside the terminal. Shemesh says that a month after she
and Sudry began shooting interviews with eyewitnesses, an anonymous insider
handed over surveillance footage from one camera, and the couple realized
“we had a film.” Footage from other cameras soon followed. “Then it was,
‘Okay, wow,’” says Shemesh. “We edited it very fast, in 28 days. Because we
were so focused, we knew what we wanted.”
For more on Death in the Terminal, read our essay here. For more context on
the political and social climate in Israel then and now, go here. For an
interview with the filmmakers on Intercepted go here.
Warning: This film contains images that may be disturbing to some viewers.
This film is currently available to be viewed only in the United States and
Canada.
56 minutes

Directed by Asaf Sudry and Tali Shemesh
Executive Produced by Mark Boal and Megan Ellison


here's a nice blog post


on the event
https://www.topic.com/a-brief-history-of-two-killings
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