Officers with assault rifles, backed by a huge armored grenade launcher, square up to a crowd furiously denouncing the killing of a young black neighbor.

It is a scene which could have been taken from archive footage of Mogadishu in 1990s Somalia or countless other battles, but this conflict is closer to home — the streets of small-town America. The images, captured in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014, open „Do Not Resist“ — a disturbing documentary charting the transformation of police across the US into forces that look like military units.