Brutality In Fruitvale Station

Years seem to pass by and the same issue just keep on occurring. The issue of the mistreatment and brutality among African Americans, especially targeting young African American men. Fruitvale Station, a movie released in 2013 viewed, once again, viewed the brutality upon African American men. Throughout history, the media has put a lens on African American Brutality, this exploration became popular to America during the Civil Rights Movement. There were many incidents of brutality before the 1960 's and are still present today. The Movie, Fruitvale Station shows the repetitive view of the mistreatment to African Americans especially targeting African American males in America. Based on a true story, according to www.imnb.com, Fruitvale Station, begins with a 22 year old character name Oscar and his girlfriend Sophina arguing about Oscar 's infidelity. They stop arguing when Tatiana, their daughter comes into the room. The next morning, Oscar drops Tatiana at daycare and Sophina at work. He then begins shopping for his mother 's birthday. Oscar stops by his old job at the deli in a grocery store where he was fired two weeks prior for tardiness. While waiting for his boss, he helps a lady named Katie by giving her advice on what to cook for her boyfriend for New Year 's eve. When his boss finally arrives, Oscar pleads with him to let him have his job back. The boss explains he has too many workers already and Oscar becomes frustrated ends up threatening his boss, leaving no chance of being rehired. Oscar 's main worry was about being able to provide for his family and also help his sister who is also struggling. He goes back to his house and picks up his stash of Marijuana, thinking of selling it to make money for his family. While waiting for his contact to arrive, he sits near a body of water and thinks about his life. In 2007, Oscar is incarcerated, thinking of those scenes in his head Oscar dumps his stash of marijuana in the water in an effort to get on the good path and gives the remaining marijuana in the car to his contact. Oscar then goes to pick up Sophina and Tatiana and they go to Sophina 's mother 's house. There, Sophina confronts Oscar on his behavior and Oscar admits to Sophina that he lost his job. Sophina becomes angry, but relents when Oscar tells her that he got rid of the Marijuana to be a better man and show he cares for Sophina and Tatiana. They later attend his mother 's birthday party. After the party is over, Oscar tells his mother that he wants to go see the fireworks with his friends. His mother advises him to take BART to the festivities in San Francisco and Oscar agrees. Before leaving, Tatiana tells Oscar that she is scared because the fireworks outside sound like gun shots, Oscar playfully dismisses and promises her an entire day of fun the next day. Since the train is stalled temporarily, but Oscar and his friends turn the train into a party scene. Eventually, the train returns and Oscar begins looking for a seat, Katie, the customer from the grocery store recognizes Oscar and calls out his name, this leads to him being identified by a former inmate from his memory. The inmate and his friends assault Oscar but are ran off by Oscar and his friends. The police ,however, pull Oscar and his friends off the train, and use excessive force towards them which grabs the attention of the passengers on the train. When more officers arrive, their excessive force …show more content…
When Africans were brought over to America dating back to the early 1500 's, once freed Africans were placed in big ships and had to deal with mistreatment and brutality of old Britain Americans. Dr. Sophia Woodard an associated professor of History and Political Science at Albany State University states "It was embedded into former African kings and queens heads that they were worthless. Always remember class one thing that nobody can take away is your knowledge, so that is why you should know your history, learn from it and use that to move