From boy to "gangster" - and from the cell to sale. At six, Demetrics McCauley nearly drowned trying to fit in. At sixteen, he was already drowning in a life that promised fast money and faster funerals. Set in Missouri during the height of the "super-predator" panic, it traces Demetrics McCauley from childhood innocence to teenage violence - and the institutions that branded, caged, and nearly erased a generation of young Black men. Told with unflinching honesty and cinematic detail Gangster is a gripping, real life coming-of-age story about identity, survival, and transformation in the age of mass incarceration.
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