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RIck Cabot and Jean Cabot
Rick and Jean are caucasian. Rick Cabot was the district attorney. He uses race to help his political career. After the two African American men (Anthony and Peter) carjacked his SUV I recall him saying “Why did they have to be black!?” He was married to Jean Cabot. After their SUV was carjacked Jean claimed that she was justified in being scared of them African American men because shortly after she was scared she “had a gun in her face.” Later on that night a hispanic man (Daniel Ruiz) was changing the locks in their home and Jean told Rick that she wanted the locks changed again in the morning because he was going to sell their house keys to his “Gangbanger friends”. At the end Jean realizes that
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While they are walking Jean and RIck Cabot passed them on the sidewalk. WHen they passed Jean grabbed her husband’s arm. Anthony pointed out how that was wrong and then Anthony and Peter took the Cabot’s car at gunpoint. While they were driving to the place to chop the car they hit a chinese man that was trying to unlock his van (Choi Jin Gui). The man that was running the chop shop was not pleased that they had a body in the back. Anthony is very stereotypical. He says that buses have big windows to embarrass the black people riding in them. He also prides himself in never robbing a black person but he then tries to steal an African American man's (Cameron Thayer) SUV. He was surprised to find the man driving the car but continued to do so. The man fought back and then the police started to chase them. Anthony his in the car and the man let him go free. He then remember the van that the chinese man was trying to unlock. He went, got the van, took it to the chop shop, and discovered that it was full of people that were being trafficked to the USA. The chop shop leader offered to buy the people but Anthony refused and let the people go. Later on in the movie we see Anthony riding on the

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