Posted on 07/27/2013 5:04:13 PM PDT by EveningStar
Harvey Weinstein’s big Oscar hopeful this summer is “Fruitvale Station,” a true story about the fatal Oakland shooting of an unarmed young black man that arrived with almost miraculous timing. Hitting theaters just as the jurors in the George Zimmerman trial were deliberating. the film won the two top prizes at the Sundance Film Festival and has become a cause celebre among critics. Activists are seizing the opportunity to promote the movie, which calls for justice and implies that nothing like it has occurred yet, though the man who shot and killed Oscar Grant has already served time in prison and Grant’s family has prevailed in a large civil suit.
Hoping to stir the public, though, the film dances around the facts ...
Coogler has already admitted he made up a scene that shows Grant lovingly coming to the aid of a dog hit by a car ...
Nor is there any evidence that one of the police officers arresting a group of young men, including Grant after a scuffle on a BART train, punched Grant in the face ...
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Wikipedia article: BART Police shooting of Oscar Grant
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WHAT a coincidink!!
But almost every reviewer draws a false equivalence between Grant and Martin, which is even worse.
The details of the two incidents are night and day.
There is another 10 bucks I can save. I hate liberal horse dung movies.
He knows it won't be his.
CNN Guest Lashes Out At Juror B29’s ‘Empty’ Apologies For Verdict, Scolded By Fellow Guests
Saturday, July 27, 2013 12:17:18 AM · 28 of 30
mosesdapoet to 2ndDivisionVet
Too many on both sides are playing with this. It’s the second time the President of the United States has interjected himself into a confrontation between those in authority on legal grounds reasonably questioned and released someone involved in a curious activity.
In both cases those representing “authority” were reported as “white” . In the second case the person working security was attacked after questioning an activity while on private rights of way and allowing the person to continue on their way. Who doubled back and attacked the “neighborhood watch” worker beating him severly on the ground in which the attacker was subsequently killed in a struggle over the Neighborhood Watchman’s legal pistol.
In the second case both were dark skined.
Since the Zimmernan not guilty verdict has been rendered, the facts of this case are still being shamefully being concealed by the media to the extent they are advancing and are complicit in permitting a putrid injstice to be committed of the worst order,organized and instituted by our governent.While denied. It began as a miscalculation when a surname of a Jewish origin shot up and lighted the heavens like a star shell in the darkest of nights. It would have been difused if the media used pictures of both side by side because they look like cousins. And the area where this occured of paycheck to paycheck struggling homeowners of all races trying to protect themselves had been reported and not some ritzy all white enclave.they portrayed..Worse yet the media is still pilling it on with ABC editing a a black jury members (remember when they were all white)t remarks to make it sound like she accused Zimmerman of murder.
Instead the party that hypenated itself from God at their 2012 convention into demo-coms, and believe that all groups should be hyphenated , Afro-American, Hispanic-American, etc..Decided Zimmerman to be the egg that is to be broken,. sacrificed, so that we have an omlet..Just like Stalin did to the Ukrainian land owners known as Kulacks whom he executed, (and used that egg example) in a soclal engineering plan to organize collectives during a Russian drought..Because as we have learned there seems to be the intention to use a collective data base to create collectives.where a utopia of uniforimity of conformity exists. As was done in Detroit, and Oakland California.only this time a poor whitey or blacky won’t be able to move,.
Just as with the energy plan where the cost of fuel used for energy and transportation has skyrocketed placing those on fixed or limited incomes dependent on government handouts because of this regimes socialist policies the sacrifice of Zimmerman must die for . This time to another communist plan. We all move together in centers designed and approved by comrades running the collective who (just like Obamacare aren’t in it) won’t and never live there.
Why is this being done ? Who accompained Obama on his many trips around the world at taxpayer expence ? Were they the heavy hitters or their friends holding the president’s hand ? Never looked into either by the House and certainly not even speculated about or reported on by the media. Seems like that could be considered pay back at US taxpayer expence. Isn’t that an impeachable offense ? Now if somebody even suggests impeachment. What better way to discourage that by organizing the base for riots in the streets ?
A lie goes half way across the world before the truth has put its pants on.
I saw the tv ads and I knew basically what the story would be about. Prepare for more.
The movie will portray a group of hollywood airbrushed and hip urban youth just minding their own business and planning their futures as Wall St. investors when a white bart-pig walks by, not a gang of black street urchins passing around a brown bag of malt liquor, hurling insults at passers-by and getting mouthy with security.
Weinstein is just another in a very long line of Jews exploiting negroes. Hollywood, the NFL, the NBA and MLB have been doing it for years.
Grant and his hoodlum friends went out looking for trouble that NYE.
They found it.
Reminds me of a ludicrous TV series some years ago called "I'll Fly Away." It was basically a Leftist morality play. I never watched it in my own home, but was forced to see an episode at my liberal in-laws' house.
The show ripped off the storyline and characters of the movie "To Kill a Mockingbird." E.g. the main character, played by Sam Waterston (doing a poor imitation of Gregory Peck) was the heroic liberal lawyer who defended poor oppressed blacks in some horrible, racist little backwater town in the South.
Of course all the black characters in that show were angelic; and all the whites were eeeeeevil racists (except for the liberal lawyer and his family, of course).
I never could understand how anyone could watch that swill. But my liberal in-laws lapped it up.
This film is getting great reviews.
I’ve tried watching it and...Nazis or no, two hours of marching and speechifying is pretty damn dull. Maybe that’s what they mean by the ‘banality of evil’.
Sure it is, it fits the liberal agenda. Wait until you see the reviews for Jane Fonda playing Nancy Reagan.
Now I look at this Trayvon Martin fiasco and the level of manufactured outrage, and wonder why, when I would have thought that the Grant shooting would have been much better fodder.
I guess since it was in San Francisco, it didn't fit the southern redneck white racist template.
I'm betting that somewhere early in the movie credits is the line "Based on a true story." That usually means "Loosely based on a true story."
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