re: Watched Fruitvale Station This Weekend

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The director seems to portray it as a puff piece for Grant on many interviews.

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He's obviously sympathetic toward him, and the film ends with a montage of Grant's family and a rally to support justice for him. The guy was racially profiled and murdered, after all.

But in the film itself, I thought it was an even take.

For instance, it portrays Grant calling a white cop a "bitch arse n****." Then the cop repeating this over and over. That is a story from the cop himself. I think things like that keep it from being a film that just portrays Grants as uber-victim.