An African American judge, David Cunningham, filed a lawsuit of 10 million dollars after being stopped and arrested for not wearing a seatbelt.He claims that the UCLA police used too much force than needed and he feels that it was only due to his race. He was stopped by the police on November 23 right after he was leaving a fitness gym. He claimed that he was thrown against a car, handcuffed, and locked him in the car until a black sergeant arrived. He was pulled over outside of the L.A Fitness building and was buckling his seatbelt. One of the officers asked to see his license and registration ,and he began to try and get it out.
The general community doesn’t deserve to be beaten, raped, and murdered and neither does the LGBT community. Gay marriage is the main fight for LGBT rights activists. Denying the LGBT community marriage rights is denying them civil rights. How would someone like it if they couldn’t marry their love? Some states have legalized same sex marriage.
The effect of Homophobia in men and woman Have you ever wondered why there aren’t more gay characters on television or in movies? Whether gay and lesbian characters are portrayed differently than their straight counterparts? Why stories about gay and lesbians tend to revolve exclusively around their sexuality and sexual orientation? Historically, many societies have been intolerant of homosexuals, bisexual, and transgender individuals. Media has played a role in both perpetuating and resisting this state of affair.
In the lawsuit it stated Macias Jr., being a former high school football star was arrested for not giving his motorcycle key to the officers upon request and once handcuffed he was positioned in a way inside the patrol car that made the ride very uncomfortable. His knees were up to his chest inside the vehicle and decided to move his hands from the back to the front. Officer Cleaver noticed what he had done, pulled over and called back up. Officer Cleaver tased Macias Jr. twice, while Officers Velasquez and Taifane punched him several times. The management problem we have here are officers who escalated a situation to a point where excessive physical use was not necessary.
The minorities are vulnerable to the media because the minorities are shot and killed by the police. In the case of Michael Brown, who is a minority, being that he is a young black male, who allegedly was walking illegally in the middle of a street was shot by Darren Wilson a white police officer. In the accounts of what transpired Wilson the police officer said that Brown attacked him in his car, but an eyewitness alleged that brown was shot while holding his hands up in the air and was unharmed(“Police Brutality”). However the headlines in the media are emphasizing race, black vs. white, which is a controversial topic due to the history of black and white people. Do to events like slavery and segregation, yet the media seem to play on race instead of facts.
It’s known that the criminal system is corrupted when it comes to demographics. Black victims are used as scapegoats when they no longer have a word to say. “He was a bad student, was suspended several times, he was in a gang and that he had drugs in his system when he was murdered.” The media wants to make the shooting justified and that they rid the earth of a future felon. But what can an unarmed teenager do to a cop… An example would be Trayvon Martin, a seventeen year old African American, walking home from a store, having brought a bag of skittles and a can of Arizona tea. How much of a predator can this male be to a burly man with a gun?
Each character in the film reach a point in their lives that makes them question themselves as people, and what they express towards others. Crash shows stories of race, class, and gender post September 11th. The film shows that almost everyone as being unconsciously prejudice towards others and we lack love for others. The first time we see a sense of racism is when a Persian man wants to buy a gun but the gun shop owner refers him as “Osama”, is refused service and is then escorted out. Two African-American men discuss about how they as a group are always being stereotyped but they themselves hijack a couple’s car moments later.
Police Brutality "We were following are training as L.A.P.D. officers," said officer Stacey Koon who was one of four officers accused of using excessive force against Rodney King. {Brutality in Los Angles 7 } Koon along with fellow officers Timothy Wind, Lawrence Powell, and Theodore Brines chased King through downtown Los Angles. King had allegedly committed numerous traffic violations and was thought to be high on PCP. After a hour King pulled his car over and the officers swarmed in to arrest him.
The trial was moved to a community with little diversity, therefore, the police officers were acquitted. The outcome of this trial would have turned out differently if the jury had been more diverse The Rodney King Trial created extreme controversy and uproar in the state of California. The police officers that assaulted King were accused of assault and assault with a deadly weapon because they could be seen on tape beating Rodney King after pulling him over. King wasn’t completely innocent though, he was “convicted of attempted robbery in 1989, [he] served one year at the California Correctional Center in Susanville before being paroled and allowed to return home... there was a bottle of beer in the car when King saw the flashing lights of the California Highway Patrol. Knowing that he was violating his parole, King initially tried to get away, leading the officers on a high-speed chase”(Zook 4-5).
One sergeant, Stacey Koon, used a Taser gun to fire at him before they beat him with their buttons mercilessly. He was struck with police batons more than fifty times and suffered eleven fractures besides other injuries. George Holiday, who was a nearby resident, videotaped the ordeal and delivered it to a local television station the following day (CNN Library, 2014). The tape sparked tension between the black Americans and the whites. The blacks saw the beating as racial discrimination against their community.