begging for his previous job, also when the transit cop disrespected him. Nevertheless, Oscar calmed down and selected the high road, and reason with the officers. While reading “Stealing a bag of potato chips and other crimes of resistance by Victor M. Rios”, this passage jump out at me when watching Fruitvale Station. “Many of the young men self-consciously “acted stupid” as a strategy to discredit the significance of a system which had excluded and punished them. These deviant politics garnered…
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