Heroin King of Baltimore: The Rise and Fall of Melvin Williams
2013
0h 58m
Baltimore City officials asked drug kingpin Melvin Williams to stop the riots happened following Martin Luther King's assassination. After helping the authorities out, Williams was then labeled a threat, framed and incarcerated by a hypocritical society.
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