“Some things you can't escape

Death, taxes, and a racist society that make

Every nigga feel like a candidate

For a Trayvon kinda fate

Even when your crib sit on a lake

Even when your plaques hang on a wall

Even when the President jam your tape”

—J. Cole, “Neighbors,” 2016

A new Netflix documentary, The Perfect Neighbor, has introduced millions of viewers to Marion County, Florida, detailing the slow drip of death that was visited upon one neighborhood through the lens of nearly two years of police body camera footage. Directed by Spike Lee protegè, Geeta Ghanbir, the film explores how Susan Lorincz, a White baby boomer held her mostly Black neighborhood hostage through calculated racial terror. While employing a number of tools to keep her neighbors on eggshells, including verbal t

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