On 14 July 2018 a local barber and pillar of his community Harith Augustus was shot to death in the street by the Chicago police, what follows as captured by a mix of CCTV, dashcam and police bodycam footage is a chilling demonstration of what the phrase ‘closing ranks’ means at its most pernicious. Building on the work of journalist/writer Jamie Kalven who was also the collaborative producer of his Academy Award nominated documentary short film Incident, archival filmmaker Bill Morrison’s Incident reconstructs the events leading up to the shooting of Harith Augustus but most critically, continues beyond that tragic moment to reveal how the police on the scene immediately began the work of retconning a narrative to justify the slaying. Assuming that the police are capable of unjustifiably killing someone and then covering it up one thing, but watching it unfold with cold unquestioned calculation in front of your eyes is something else entirely.