Guys, i am from Greece and have never visited the U.S. but i have a quick question about a fact in the movie that shocked me. Is this police behaviour usual? Would they ever behave to people like that even after a fight has broken? Apart from the shot, the fact that they punched and held them there without even having witnessed what happened is absolutely beyond me.
shareI agree with Folkard7.
Police are the same everywhere you go, some good, some bad.
I used to live in Vienna, and one of my teachers at my high school (he was black) was beaten within an inch of his life by Police after being "mistaken" for a drug dealer. A few months later, a couple of teenage boys were shot and killed by police after shoplifting.
America just has a high rate because it's a huge continent.
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As you see in the film, the behavior was real. It was recorded on video by several people, and is reproduced in the film pretty much as it occurred in reality. Unfortunately, this is not rare in the U.S., particularly for young Black men.
shareFrom my experience, it depends a lot on which part of the U.S. you are talking about. You can get anything from a really friendly and helpful cop to someone who acts like he's in a warzone: paranoid, authoritative, suspicious and trigger-happy. It probably depends a lot on the area/neighborhood.
shareA former black officer has some things to say about race and policing by the police:
http://www.vox.com/2015/5/28/8661977/race-police-officer
They are. Especially with cops such as transit cops and security. They have a mentality that they are better than everyone else and think they are authority figures that should be respected when in reality, they are hired to protect people, not bully them. Cops here in the states are the worst kind of people.
I overheard rumors of a SGT in my city that is getting paid with girls by gangsters. My friend was at a cookout and she over heard him saying how he sleeps with younger girls, this is a married man and an officer of the law. He and another SGT was under investigation for being bribed and one of the SGT retired because of it and the other one I speak up was promoted to detective. It's a shame that such a powerful nation can't control their local police officers.
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Well, they did shoot this guy in the back and police killings are nearly a daily occurrence, so yes. If anything, the police were probably portrayed more sympathetically than they deserved.
shareYes i am sorry to say police is a policed state. The people are afraid and somewhat oppressed. i lived in fruitvale, Oakland and never felt threatened by criminals, and at the time law enforcement was very afraid because of this case. However usual behavior of law enforcement has resumes as usual in the entire U.S.
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