“Street Fight” is a film about Cory Booker running for mayor of Newark against incumbent Sharpe James. “Street Fight” was filmed by Marshall Curry with a single camera over the course of the election. Street fight is a one camera documentary that focuses on Cory Booker's run for mayor with the extreme measures that Sharpe James takes against him. This particular race took place in 2002 in Newark New Jersey. Street fight follows a race for mayor that turns extremely dirty, with the incumbent taking corrupt measures against the “protagonist” of the film Cory Booker. Cory's plan is to go through the city of Newark to talk to the people in order to better understand them and connect with them on an individual level. His appeal to the people is that“incumbents ether …show more content…
As Cory goes through a housing project to spread his message he is stop by a security guard and asked to leave but, Cory ignores this request and continues to go from neighborhood to neighborhood to talk to his potential constituents. The security guard calls the police and the chief of police shows up to a place that normally the police would barely attempt to go to. Which indicates that he has garnered “special” attention from the powers that be. Instead of seeking out individuals in the community Sharpe James holds a rally. Marshall Curry is accosted by the police after being observed filming the mayor with permission. They demand his home address and license information after demanding that he stop recording the mayor's rally. The Filmmaker then reaches out to the mayor's PR people and they ignore his complaints. The mayor targets business and people that stood against his campaign including shutting down a car wash. In addition, a manger for the city was demoted due to supporting different candidates. Also, a police officer was moved to worse shift in a dangerous neighborhood after showing support for Cory Booker. Afterwards, Booker's campaign office was
All towns, cities, and areas have their own specific traits. Small towns tend to be more like a family, while big cities tend to be more passive. Then there are the small areas where people do not make much money and struggle to get by. These areas tend to be more violent and more influenced by drugs and alcohol. This is the area that Andre Dubus III grew up in, in his memoir Townie. His parents were divorced and neither of them made much money so he and his two sisters and brother ended up moving from one small crummy neighborhood to another. In these neighborhoods he would get involved in the wrong crowds and end up doing drugs, drinking, and fighting. This became a way to show power. The most powerful people were strong and always came out on top in fights, had all the drugs and alcohol, and therefore all the power. This drove many people to fight so that they could move up this chain of command. No one wanted to be the bottom because that was the position of the most abused people of the neighborhood. This need and fear is what drove Andre to fight and the understanding of this fear is what drove him away from fighting.
Officer Ryan is a white bigoted police officer who has a clear hatred of African Americans. The scene depicts Office Ryan pulling over a vehicle, because it looks like one that was reported stolen. However, after running the plates, he knows the vehicle is not stolen, but using his Legitimate Power, he pulls the vehicle over anyway. Like most power, legitimate power is based upon perception and reality, and the ability to influence others based on their status, and the right to comply. However, once the stop is initiated, he then engages in Coercive Power, and sexually assaults the female passenger, Christine Thayer, as her husband, Cameron Thayer, watches helplessly. Ryan hatred of blacks is so intense that he does even care that he has just committed a crime in front of his partner, a partner who knows that he has just crossed the line. Officer Ryan has no respect for blacks, and used racial profiling as a means of pulling over and harassing the couple. When a person with authority uses their position to force someone to comply with what they want, by using acts of threats and intimation is coercive power.
The piece goes on to say that “gang members, drug dealers, two-bit criminals, wannabes, etc. are taking a vacation and taking advantage of the police not wanting to be in the area because police are the targets for all these gang members and drug dealers.” The video continues on stating that this is all occurring as arrest numbers have dropped 32%; a concerning result of police officers being targeted, fearing for their lives, feel alienated and concerned about doing their jobs. The guest also states “this is exactly what the city government gets…The police department doesn’t feel the police commissioner has stood by it, and the mayor threw them under the bus by inviting the DOJ to come and investigate an alleged presence of racism…{So they} are making no proactive stops; not stopping people and shaking them down, not searching people or looking for guns or drugs, basically just answering the calls to service…taking care of the good citizens who are in trouble…and taking care of their fellow officers because they now have to worry about making a mistake and getting charged with false arrest, false imprisonment, and the loss of their freedom.” The guest also predicts that many of the police officers will leave to find places that will respect them and support them when they make lawful arrests and do their job, leaving only those who would do nothing and mindlessly agree with the
Twelve thousand cops in Chicago today. The average age of these members are high school age, sixteen to nineteen years old. In the book, the Black Kings were mostly made up of "foot soldiers " this same age who gradually moved up the ranks in the gang. Although these young men sold drugs in the community and didn 't contribute to the growing epidemic and war on drugs, the community didn 't oppose of them one hundred percent. Besides protecting the community from gang rivals, the Kings also ran patrol of the buildings. Instead of calling the police or ambulance who would take hours to show because of fear of the community , the residents would just call out for the members of the gang. For example, a drunken domestic dispute with left the woman near unconscious called for a beating of the man. A gang member himself, was beat down , because the disrespect of women was not tolerated. If someone needed to be taken to the hospital, a gang members car was designated. A portion of the monies the gang collected went back into the community by way of free clothes, community parties, school supplies for the kids, funds for the recreation center. Even though this was drug money circulating, the community appreciated the fact that J.T. Cared about their well being. In my opinion, J.T. truly cared about the next generation, mandating a high school education, and letting them know that education was more
Ann Petry’s The Street is more than a story of racism and poverty in America. This novel is about how the intersectionality of identities limit African-Americans from achieving equality in the dominant race’s society. The protagonist, Lutie Johnson has three barriers dragging her down. She is not only a woman, but a black woman that is also a lower class single mother. In the novel Lutie faces the realities of the American Dream, which for African- Americans is literally just a dream. Lutie also experiences the harsh effects of poverty and how it shapes one’s life.
Those disclosures effectively put the city's entire political leadership on the spot. Most directly, they demonstrate that the LAPD ignored some calls for reform and created an atmosphere ripe for corruption. At the same time, they also suggest that Riordan and City Council members backed policies...
Fight Club is a story about the never-ending struggles between classes. The Project Mayhem is formed in an attempt to overthrow the upper class who undermines the lower class. There are a number of scenes in the story, which highlights the struggle between classes. For instance, when Tyler pees in the soup of an upper class person, when he splices pornography into films and the scene when a mechanic takes the unnamed narrator to steal body fat. The characters here do all they can to fight against the upper class people and to get revenge.
The “Darth Vader” mayors are an example of the use of systemic power. Instead of focusing more on those who consume, the mayors are pressured by the system and society to focus on those who produce. This inhibits the minority mayor from addressing the issues that he was initially elected to solve. Bastards of the Party Source: Lecture 17 and 18 film Meaning: This film, directed by former gang member Cle Sloan, shows how racism between whites and blacks during the civil rights movement played a significant role in the formation of many Los Angeles gangs that we would see today. The first activist groups formed in order to gain protection from hate crimes and the LAPD.
Rios describes how patrol officer didn’t really care, or to help these youth. Instead of helping out, law enforcement targeted these young deviant boys. Rios shows us a depth overview of Oakland Police Department. In doing so, he shows us how the miscommunication, and the inequality these law agencies in the inner city ghetto
Since he is a coward, he often bullied by his peers. Even though he is thinking to stand up for himself, he still doesn’t dare to resist them.“I took a deep breath and shut my locker. I was used to this kind of abuse. Last year, whenever Enrique caught wind of it, he’d tell me to stand up for my self. ‘I know you don’t want to fight,’ he said once. ‘But at least have the balls to tell hem to fuck off,’ And in my head I did. In my head, I was Jason Bourne or Jack Bauer or James Bond or all three of them combined. But beyond my head, the most I ever did was ignore it and walk away”(Henriquez 15). This quote tells us Mayor has been bullied for a long while and he is kind of used to it. He is unhappy, but he just hides his anger and ignores what they did to him. He is willing to fight in his mind, but he doesn’t succeed in real life. It is ironic that he thinks t he is “Jack Bauer” or “Jason Bourne”. They are heroes in people’s mind. The difference between them and Mayor make us feel more sorry for
For this assignment, I decided to watch “Crash”, a movie set in the streets of Los Angeles California and that shows the lives of various individuals with different cultural backgrounds. The movie starts with the scene of a car crash between an Asian woman and a couple of detectives near the sight of a murder, as the African American detective Graham Waters walks around the scene he stops because he saw something that shocked him, and from there a flashback begins. The first relevant scene shows, Anthony and Peter, two African Americans individuals walking down the street talking about racial discrimination. As they talk a couple passes by them and the two decide to steal their car. This causes a chain of events affecting the lives of many
The director Antoine Fuqua vision for this film was to bring that intense love-hate relationship onto the big screen and showcase it for the world to see. To ensure a convincing film setting, Fuqua shot on location in some of the most hardcore neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Fuqua also wanted to show the daily struggles of officers tasked to work in the rougher neighborhoods of cities and how easy it can be to get caught up in a street life filled with killers and drug dealers. Overall the film displayed the city of Los Angeles in a different perspective. One which m...
First, in inner cities the minority of people protects about the injustice that they experience in American society like brutality by the police. The people in the inner cities live in hopeless bout their own destiny. Richardson, post a picture about of two little boys who walk peacefully on the protest. The two little boys symbolize how the new generation faces their reality in society. The present of the two boys call people attention about how the parents involved their children in this activity and they teach their children how can defense themselves in front the injustice of live miserable. The picture shows how the innocent of the new generation is changed drastically because the eyes of the two boys show innocent and worries because they feel that their childhood is gone because he doesn’t understand their reality. Baldwin in his article, ‘Notes of a Native Son’ would argues that the people in Baltimore are going through to protect themselves front the hate they experience by the people in society. Baldwin states, “I did
In the opening scenes of the trailer, already the audience is exposed to the dystopian atmosphere of chaos, social anarchy and oppression. This is promoted by short fast paced montages and high angle shots of the swarmed streets, close angle shots of people in terror and military forces. This also conveys the magnitude of chaos this “dilemma” has caused. A short scene of the main protagonist Robert struggling through the crowd has also been visually constructed to enforce to the audience that he is the main character of this movie. The visual construction of this scene is utilised by a close up slow motion focused shot on Will Smith with the background blurred to completely draw the audience onto him. What is more unique is that this combination of effects acts as an inference that Will Smith is the solution or only hope in settling this anarchy as he swiftly makes his way through the congested street. The explosion of the bridge also informs the audience the narrative is set in New York implied by being a landmark of the city. Already in the exposition, the visual conventions have provided an engaging and well informed construction of dystopian qualities and information about the plot itself.
“We fight each other for territory; we kill each other over race, pride, and respect. We fight for what is ours. They think they’re winning by jumping me now, but soon they’re all going down, war has been declared.” Abuse, Pain, Violence, Racism and Hate fill the streets of Long Beach, California. Asians, Blacks, Whites and Hispanics filled Wilson High School; these students from different ethnic backgrounds faced gang problems from day to night. This movie contains five messages: people shouldn’t be judgmental because being open-minded allows people to know others, having compassion for a person can help people change their views in life, being a racist can only create hate, having the power of the human will/goodness to benefit humanity will cause a person to succeed at any cost and becoming educated helps bring out the intelligence of people.