I watched it for the second time in more than half a year and took notes again?
Law & Order S1E8 Poison Ivy
Racism / Black Community / NYPD
◇ The victim Tommy walked out of the impoverished African-American community and became an honorary student at a top university. He was an inspirational community model with a promising future, but was shot and killed by a white police officer.
◇ Playing with trust-fund babies at school, because he is African-American (with connections), he naturally becomes a drug dealer - For him, this is a way to integrate into the group and a shortcut to make money that can return to the community . "He may need a bad part to make the good part worked."
◇ Prosecutor Stone and assistant Robinette quarrel over whether to publish the results of the investigation that may destroy Tommy's reputation. Robinette shows the instinct of empathy as an African-American, but at the same time, he is once again called black and white for prosecuting black people. "Oreo".
◇ Ballistic testing in those days was still done in laboratory tanks.
◇ Although it is already the state with the strictest gun ban in the United States, gun sales in New York in the 1980s and 1990s were still rampant. Even regular gun stores would not verify each customer's gun license, and 90% of the guns involved in crime came from Out-of-state smuggling cannot be traced back to the source.
◇ Greevey and Logan, who were caught in the delicate relationship between the Internal Affairs Department, which investigates police disciplinary behavior, and the Police Union, which protects the rights of police officers, were isolated.
◇ The role and influence of the pastor as a community leader - Whenever there is trouble, the pastor needs to come forward to communicate.
◇ This episode was adapted from a real case in 1985. Edmund Perry, a 17-year-old Stanford freshman, was shot and killed near his home by plainclothes police officer Lee Van Houten. The case sparked demonstrations against racial discrimination and police brutality, but a later court trial confirmed it. Van Houten was in self-defense after being robbed by the Perry brothers.
◇ Although the case itself is no longer objectionable (similar to L&O's clear position and no open ending), people still discuss why Perry himself, as a promising top student, would randomly grab "small" money So far – it has basically focused on the struggles of young people who grew up in the African-American community to get out of the community and integrate into the mainstream society. For example, when George Floyd sparked the BLM movement last year, Perry’s alma mater, Phillips Exeter Academy, posted that he did The values that exist in campus life against minority stereotypes deserve to be remembered.
◇ By the way, I watched the adaptation of the 1992 film, Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story, which focused on Perry's harsh family education and his short life struggling with racial prejudice, but blurred the most direct cause of the shooting ( Random robbery), and even to some extent whitewash this criminal motive.
◇ New York's Finest, originally the honorary name of the New York Police NYPD since the 19th century, is similar to NY's Bravest, which refers to the fire department NYFD, but in recent years, due to police corruption and improper law enforcement, New York's Finest has been brought with irony and derogatory meanings mean.
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