By shining a warm but very clear light on a life snatched away too soon, on a community so often overlooked or misrepresented, Coogler has demonstrated how rare it is for movies to actually be about real people and about the real, important things going on in America. Fruitvale Station shames Hollywood by setting a good example.
FURTHER READING:
Some other recent cases of police killing unarmed people of
color:
-- the LAPD physically abused this 35-year old black woman last year while arresting her for sending her children to a police station; she died in their custody and they have refused to release video of the incident.
--this 68-year old African-American heart patient was shot
dead in 2011 inside his own home in White Plains, N.Y. when the police
responded to an automatic medical alarm.
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