It's weird how I didn't recognize that what Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn did at the beginning of the movie was police brutality. After they got suspended I was a bit surprised. It took me having to imagine myself in Vasquez's place to agree that it was indeed police brutality. I guess I'm too used to seeing cops talking tough and throwing perpetrators around, regardless of ethnicity, in other movies. It's as if Hollywood has desensitized me to this type of errant behavior.
shareit didn't seem like much. i think he just stepped on the guy a little, or kneeled on him ? i guess there's been a lot worse in the news lately.
shareyeah pretty sure though most of those people were either on drugs as in breaking the law, or in the process of kidnapping a child, that guy with the knife that one. read that's the argument his lawyer was making the other day. lol.
also that "hands up dont shoot" is a straight up lie, that offender even went for the officers gun
anyway, thats the point this movie was making, you can see it with the meeting with the Chief and the suspension scene, and they talked about how shitty the media is, and how they will frame a violent offender as someone that's innocent and doing nothing wrong if a cop beats them a bit too hard for breaking the law and keeping society safe, that sorta thing
Because they were portrayed as committing police brutality, it was considered "okay" that they both die and the black dude got all the money.
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