In compelling new film Hold Your Fire, a siege that pitted black robbers against white US police led to an unlikely outcomeFilms about hostage situations rarely play out like Hold Your Fire, where both the captives and captors don’t die.Stefan Forbes’s riveting documentary revisits a real life 47-hour standoff in Brooklyn following a botched sporting goods store robbery; the kind that makes you wonder why they never made a movie about that before.
In January 1973, four Black men led by Shu’aib Raheem were planning to steal guns from John and Al’s Sporting Goods in Bed-Stuy and were pitted into a loaded and intense confrontation with an overwhelmingly white police force that brought barricades, snipers and a tank.
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