Laneka, Deidre and Karen, three HBCU besties turned professional career women, enraged by the systemic injustice plaguing their community, band together to form a vigilante squad that targets White Supremacists deemed to have circumvented the justice system and gotten away with protected murder. Serving up grisly justice in increasingly creative ways, the vigilante posse becomes front-page news while always staying one step ahead of the law. It's liberating, it's addictive and it's kinda fun - until a copycat killer emerges whose signature contains a special message to them. "They Choose Violence" asks what happens when you more
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I don’t consider myself a pacifist, yet from a literary perspective, violence alone as a form of justice lacks ingenuity. Therefore, I’m not here to see racist cops get their heads blown off. I’m here to experience three intelligent Black women transforming themselves into warriors.
Allen and artist Mauricio Campetella carefully map out our heroes’ journey from college graduation to their first kill. The process is precise and meticulous. The montage where they shave their heads and train like Navy SEALs is captivating, and Allen’s narration adds a cadence to the visuals that locks the audience in. The costume design, with its “emoji” masks, adds a masterful cinematic touch reminiscent of Dead Presidents.
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