Brutality In Fruitvale Station

From back in time to now, there have been a lot of movies made regarding police brutality that we are unaware of. A movie that was recently brought to my attention regarding this issue is Fruitvale Station. This movie is about 22 year old Oscar Grant, who was killed in a subway station in Oakland, California, in the early hours of January 1, 2009. Michael B. Jordan plays Oscar Grant who is trying extremely hard to live a clean life and support his young daughter and his girlfriend. In the film, it shows him trying to get his job back at the grocery store he previously worked at. He thinks about going back to his old habit of selling weed, but decides to not even go down that road. Later on, Grant attend his mother's birthday party, and talks

During their conversation, a former inmate that Grant use to go to jail with noticed him and a fight breaks out. The conductor notifies the BART police station. Out of the travelers that the BART officers tried to arrest, Grant was one of the people who was restrained by officers Ingram and Caruso, and was minutes later shot in the back by officer Ingram. He was urgently transported to the hospital, where he ends up dying in surgery. Officer Ingram told his partner and the judge that he was reaching for his taser and not his gun. After months and years of police training, I feel as if you should be certified enough to know the difference between the two. Due to Grant’s death, numerous protest and riots across his hometown occurred and the videos of this incident were leaked, that were recorded by multiple eyewitnesses. The officers who were included in this commotion were fired and eventually, Ingram was later tried and found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, and served an 11-month sentence; not long enough. Another movie regarding this issue is called Do the Right Thing, written and directed by Spike Lee. The main character, Mookie, who is played by Spike Lee, is a 25-year-old delivery man that lived in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn with his sister Jade. Mookie works at the pizzeria in his neighborhood, that

Buggin’ Out yells out that Sal and his sons are guineas, and threatens to close down the pizzeria till they change the wall. Out of irritation, Sal calls Buggin’ Out a nigger and destroys his boombox that he was carrying with him. Buggin’ Out’s friend, Raheem gets mad and charges at Sal, which leads to a severe fight that carries out into the street. When the police arrive, they pull Raheem off of Sal and arrest Buggin’ Out and Raheem. The other officers and crowd ask the other officer to release his chokehold on Raheem, but he ends up killing him. After becoming fully aware that he killed Raheem in front of citizens and officers, the officers places the body in the back of his cop car and drives of. The crowd got very angry about his death and decided to set the pizzeria on fire. The next day, Mookie goes up to Sal, who feels that Mookie has betrayed him. Mookie ask Sal to just give him his weekly pay so he can continue on with his day. They get into a argument about regarding the situation, but Sal eventually gives Mookie his