Why didn't they cast a white guy as the mean cop??

The black cop was based on a real cop Singleton had encountered who happened to be black. It was also a perceptive way of dealing with the issue of black-on-black racism, in the sense that some black people have so much self-hatred towards their own race that they take out on other black people.

Individuals from many oppressed groups, including working class people, tend to demonstrate this type of self-loathing behaviour and disassociation with people from their own background, especially after they have attained a level of success/power and the ability to demean/bully people.

I think it's a more powerful scene and indictable of society because the cop is black, and has clearly been raised to despise and dehumanise members of his own race.

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Because the entire premise of this movie was "black on black" crime. Black people killing each other, black people beating the **** out of each other, black people stealing from each other, black people ****ing with each other, and black people just generally making life miserable for one another. The very opening sequence sort of set the stage for the movie when they put up the stat saying 1/21 black males will be murdered, mostly by the hands of other black males. It would have made no sense to make the white cop the "bad" one given the premise of the movie.

Showing that racial profiling isn't a "white" cop thing, but in most cases a "Cop" thing, discriminated by our own people...

To the OP: To show that a bad cop is just that: A bad cop.

This cop didn't care if his victim was black or white or purple. He hated everyone.



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Didn't he discover America?
Penfold, shush.

white people are not mean