Rebel Ridge Director Jeremy Saulnier on the Very Real, ‘Very Unjust’ Police Tactic the Film Exposes

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1. For those that didn’t watch the Last Week Tonight segment on this years ago. Civil Asset Forfeiture is real. The cops stole a house from an elderly couple because their son used to be a drug addict and so they said he was cooking drugs there even though he wasn’t. And they had to go to court to fight it out with the police. But it wasn’t them fighting but their house that was “under arrest”. And so you are fighting in this tiny court with the cops and their friendly judges who all benefit from that money.

   The margarita machine is 100% real event where a cop used stolen money to buy a margarita machine and when asked by the town on video he said they needed it for morale or some nonsense. He said that money was just to buy “fun” things they don’t need but want.

2. Was a good movie, I lost it at the line “I think he’s on the Wikipedia page”. You just knew then that shit was about to go down.

3. The cinematography was good. The story could have been better, so it was a thumbs down for me. The actor is great though, hope to see more from him.

4. It was a fun movie, it’s great they are bringing light to the issue. The scary part is there was no need for their crazy cover up. All the asset forfeiture was likely legal.

   No need for framing people, hiding the dash cams or killing anyone to “keep it a secret.” All the asset forfeiture schemes were probably completely legal. The feds and state police would have just shrugged and moved on if she sent them all her “evidence.”

5. So much waiting for something to happen in that movie

6. The first part of the movie I was so angry and frustrated how bad he’s railroaded. Even though it was fiction… how easy that could be non-fiction.

7. this shit happened to my parents when they were just trying to get help from LE. my estranged brother kept threatening my parents to the point where he had pulled a gun on them. they finally had enough and tried to call the cops for help. because my brother also happens to be on the local cops radar from being a drug dealer they took that as an opportunity to use my parents as leverage to get him to plea to charges.

   it all eventually got dropped but instead of helping they imeddiately got with a judge and made up some false BS about how they could link them to my brother so they seized/froze literally allt heir assets hoping it would make him take a charge with them saying they’d drop shit against parents. little did they know that my brosther is a complete pos and basically laughed at them. about 3 years later, the press getting involved, cops/lawyers/judge doing some questionable shit and finally my parents signing a doc saying that if they dropped everything they’d lift the seizures/freezes. After that i am not only ACAB but also despise the legal system. louisville ky. cops are just a gang here. look up the evidence that they stole money after they killed brianna taylor that vice did. they are scum.

8. When a rich person loses their belongings to asset forfeiture then we might see some change to this practice. For now it’s all about taking from the poors who can’t fight back in courts.

9. This movie wastes ZERO time for any down time. Just constantly adding and building more and more tension

10. Rebel Ridge is the kind of movie that as soon as I finished it, I wanted to watch it again. Great stuff.

11. Pleasant surprise. But he didn’t get the girl on the end. 🙂

12. I am not generally a fan of high anxiety movies, but this was good. Same director of Green Room (never knew I’d love to see Patrick Stewart as a villain, also Anton Yelchin)

13. Rebel Ridge 2 should be the story of how Terry takes the fight to the feds 🙌

14. We just watched this movie last night. It’s very good. Kind of like a modern First Blood but with more intrigue.