A vigorous array of archival, documentary, and news footage, chronicles two decades of deadly force used against people of color by Philadelphia's finest. The film, set in the "City of Brotherly Love," is a penetrating testimony to the long-standing tensions between police and minority communities throughout the country. Directors Williams and King present community leaders, politicians, police officers, and survivors of police brutality. They unravel a pattern of overzealous police behavior, from the stormy tenure of former Mayor and Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo, to the bombing of Osage Avenue sanctioned by Wilson Goode, the city's first Black mayor. According to the film, in the past ten years, over 1,000 incidents of police brutality against minority citizens have been protested by victims, their families and the community. Black and Blue presents these realities against the self-proscribed image of police as defenders of the peace.