Synopsis
On September 7, 1996, Tupac Shakur was shot in Las Vegas in a car driven by Suge Knight. LAPD officers on Death Row Records' payroll were there that night. Six months later, on March 9, 1997, Christopher "Biggie Smalls" Wallace was assassinated outside a museum in Los Angeles. Seven independent witnesses identified the trigger man, the college roommate of one of those same officers. The rare ammunition that killed Biggie was found in that officer's garage. The ballistics test has never been performed. In thirty years, no one has ordered it.
An FBI agent compiled a prosecutive report his supervisors deemed sufficient for indictment. A convicted LAPD officer confessed to his cellmate that he was at the scene the night Biggie was murdered. A federal judge declared a mistrial after discovering the city had deliberately hidden internal affairs files implicating officers in the killing. And the LAPD itself authored a 362-page report investigating the very corruption that produced both killers, without mentioning either murder. Not once. Not in three hundred pages.
Investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker DJ Sikorski has spent thirty years inside this case. From the 500-page secret surveillance dossier he uncovered while directing Rap Sheet: Hip-Hop and the Cops, to the firsthand interviews he conducted with the FBI agent who built the prosecutive case, Sikorski has assembled what no previous investigation has: the complete evidentiary record connecting both murders to the same corrupt police infrastructure, officers of the LAPD's Rampart Division, moonlighting as enforcers for Suge Knight's Death Row Records, and the thirty-year institutional conspiracy that buried the truth.
THE DOSSIER names the officers. It documents the institutional failures. It traces the cover-up from its origins in the Rampart scandal through six police chiefs, five district attorneys, and three decades of suppressed investigations, concealed files, and institutional silence. And in its final chapter, it does something no investigation has ever done: it names,by name, every person in a position of authority who holds the evidence and has chosen silence. Every chief. Every DA. Every individual who could end this tomorrow.
The evidence is inside the building. This book opens the door.