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(SOLVED) movie or TV show from the 1980s or early 1990s where a group of bad guys attack a house with people inside


I saw this on TV about 30 years ago. It looked like something that was made relatively recently. The people inside appeared to be under the protection of law enforcement. The attack took place at night and started with a law enforcement officer sitting on the front porch getting shot in the neck with an arrow from a cross bow. The bad guys then went inside and set fire to the house. A black man inside was shot in the back. Despite being shot he went and grabbed a small black child who was either an infant or a toddler (that I assumed to be his son) and carried him over to a white man inside the house. The white man then went up to the roof of the burning house with the child. The bad guys were then all gathered outside the house and one of them shot an arrow with a cross bow at the man on the roof and he fell off the roof to the ground with the child. The man who fell was still alive and the child appeared to be okay. One of the bad guys then went and knocked the man out. The next scene showed law enforcement gathered outside the burned house the next day.

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It is a long shot again, because I don't remember plot. I watched it many years ago during holiday with my father.

"Killers in the House" (1998) - "Bank robbers on the run from the police invade a mansion and take the owners hostage."

Other possibility is "Rosewood" (1997).

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Neither of those movies could be it. I saw this movie or TV show on TV before these movies were even made. The movie or TV show I saw didn't involve a mansion or a hostage situation. It was just a regular-sized house. Rosewood is about racialized community violence from a hundred years. The movie or TV show I saw didn't appear to have a racial angle, it looked like it took place in a contemporary setting (1980s-1990s), it involved an attack on a single house rather than a whole community and the bad guys appeared to be a small group of professional criminals rather than an entire lynch mob.

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And maybe "The Last of the Finest" (1990) ? But it is very long shot.

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I looked at The Last of the Finest and it's not correct

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OK. it's my mistake. My familiar replied that it could be "Avenging Force" (1986)

"I remember seeing a review of this and it had a scene very similar to what you describe. The scene from the review should be time stamped but if not, it happens at around 24:40"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=shared&t=1482&v=mhhWpwkWRiw

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I looked at Avenging Force and it's clearly correct. Thank you very much.

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