‘Do Not Resist’ is an Unsettling Meditation on Modern Policing

One of the most poignant moments in Craig Atkinson’s Do Not Resist, comes in its opening minutes. “They need to stop giving these boys these toys,” a young black woman says as she looks out at the chaotic streets of Ferguson, Missouri, in the wake of protests against the killing of Michael Brown, “‘cuz they don’t know how to handle them.” The toys in qu…