Police Brutality: Film Analysis

Another reason why this movie is a good movie is because the problems that occur in the movie are still occurring until this day all around the world; just in a different form. One domestic and probably global issue that relates to the movie is the problem of police brutality. All over the United States there has been many cases of police brutality. In many instance there has been case of white officers killing unarmed black men. For example, the Eric Gardner case, when he was choked to death by a police officer because they thought he was someone else. The Michael Brown case, when an officer had him at gunpoint and he shot Michael Brown nine times when he didn’t have to shoot him once. This issue has been going on for awhile. For example,
the Rodney King case that happened in the 1991, when some police officers beat Rodney King almost to death after pulling him over, again he did not cause a threat. Another case that can relate to this topic is the Trayvon Martin case because he was a teen just walking down the street causing no threat, but was still shot and killed by a white man. This relates to the movie in many ways because while the people of India were protesting and marching peacefully, the police started to shoot and kill or wound the people that did not do anything to harm the officers. The people caused no threat what so ever, but the police still beat them, just as in the movie. Many people died back then because of the police brutality and some people still pay the price today.