Echoes Under Blood Red Moon Essay

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A documentary “Shannon Street” Echoes Under Blood Red Moon, A Memphis Tragedy” depicts the account of the horrendous tragedy occurrence and allows accounts from the witnesses and families of the victims and officers involved, the sacrificies had to be made and to never forget the shock within the community and police family.

The diabolical crisis situation unreveled in Memphis on January 11, 1983, Shannon Street, officers responding what was perceived as to be a routine disturbance call, consequently evolving into 2 police officers taken hostage, moreover their pleas for help made veteran police officers shudder.

Lindberg Sanders, schitzofrenic man and a leader of self created cult and followers worshiping the Red Moon and believing in the apocalypse, took hostage 2 officers and with fellow members tortured one of the officers to death for the prolonged period of time, without an order of the tactical team to enter and conduct the rescue operation, his bone chilling please could be heard on the radio during the duration and the city of Memphis plunged into the darkness and climacteric situation. The house on Shannon Street put everyone in the community on edge, the cult members inside and two officers barely standing a chance of survival hanging on the hope of aide arriving, nevertheless no order to enter the premises was given for 2 days, whislt resulting in the torturous death of a Memphis police officer and rounded up

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