American Son Review
A few months ago I took in the much anticipated drama American Son starring actors Kerry Washington and Steven Pasquale. I probably held off from watching it for three months because the story was close to Tamir Rice. Young man, gunned down by police hands and they apathetically try to explain blame. The body still warm, filthy, somewhere in said podunk town but all you see is a frantic mother asking Officer McDick the same repetitive questions that he somehow dodged.
The two argue their way in opposite corners. And at this point I wanted Olivia Pope and her white hat to show up. Nope. It was this bitch’s white husband. storyline was slightly similar to the tone deaf attitude of some of the white guys I worked with.
During my time at Famously overpriced insurance company that you can buy insurance I worked with an ex cop. He, like Officer McDick had a hard time grasping why I had “fist full of tears” when then Tamir Rice’s murderer was free to go after killing an 11 year old kid at a park playing with a toy gun. After an intense conversation that inserted both of our children (he said he would never allow his kids to play with toy guns because the police are unable to tell the difference) I said what part of your training teaches you to discharge a firearm within seconds of arriving to a scene. It was an execution. Another one. And then we can talk about Dylan Roof who literally executed a church full of good hardworking folk and was given a yummy meal and a comfortable place to discuss why he hated black people.
The perspective of American Son is from the mother. She lists a slew of police shooting victims reminding the officer that this is a racial pandemic America. He scoffs at her over and over and makes no real attempts to give her any information about sons whereabouts. Instead, he tells her that he has to wait for Lieutenant John Stokes, the Am Shift Liaison.
Olivia Pope where are you? This is where the writing to ... oh hell naw....
Protocol.
I don’t work at a police station. But in this situation, 18 year old high school students pulled over in the middle of the night by an officer. Circumstances surrounding what occurred next are unclear. So yeah, let’s let the boss aka Lieutenant John Stokes deliver the bad news (spoiler they kilt Jamal).
Kendra did a lot which made her unlikeable. She repeated the same questions over and over instead of taking that coffee and waiting.
She calls her husband Scott, a white FBI agent, who looks unhinged by the time he is done talking to Officer McDick who thought he was the Lieutenant. A couple of calls and the divorced couple receive a grainy video of their son being shot by the police.
The black Lieutenant finally shows up, tries telling the grieving Kendra off, not sure how they got away with this, and then indignantly and apathetically read her his statement about Jamal’s death.
Yeah I walked away mad. I don’t like the police still.
The two argue their way in opposite corners. And at this point I wanted Olivia Pope and her white hat to show up. Nope. It was this bitch’s white husband. storyline was slightly similar to the tone deaf attitude of some of the white guys I worked with.
During my time at Famously overpriced insurance company that you can buy insurance I worked with an ex cop. He, like Officer McDick had a hard time grasping why I had “fist full of tears” when then Tamir Rice’s murderer was free to go after killing an 11 year old kid at a park playing with a toy gun. After an intense conversation that inserted both of our children (he said he would never allow his kids to play with toy guns because the police are unable to tell the difference) I said what part of your training teaches you to discharge a firearm within seconds of arriving to a scene. It was an execution. Another one. And then we can talk about Dylan Roof who literally executed a church full of good hardworking folk and was given a yummy meal and a comfortable place to discuss why he hated black people.
The perspective of American Son is from the mother. She lists a slew of police shooting victims reminding the officer that this is a racial pandemic America. He scoffs at her over and over and makes no real attempts to give her any information about sons whereabouts. Instead, he tells her that he has to wait for Lieutenant John Stokes, the Am Shift Liaison.
Olivia Pope where are you? This is where the writing to ... oh hell naw....
Protocol.
I don’t work at a police station. But in this situation, 18 year old high school students pulled over in the middle of the night by an officer. Circumstances surrounding what occurred next are unclear. So yeah, let’s let the boss aka Lieutenant John Stokes deliver the bad news (spoiler they kilt Jamal).
Kendra did a lot which made her unlikeable. She repeated the same questions over and over instead of taking that coffee and waiting.
She calls her husband Scott, a white FBI agent, who looks unhinged by the time he is done talking to Officer McDick who thought he was the Lieutenant. A couple of calls and the divorced couple receive a grainy video of their son being shot by the police.
The black Lieutenant finally shows up, tries telling the grieving Kendra off, not sure how they got away with this, and then indignantly and apathetically read her his statement about Jamal’s death.
Yeah I walked away mad. I don’t like the police still.
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