Sentences with phrase «predominantly white police»

Directed by Joe Roth, Freedomland is a thriller starring Samuel L. Jackson and Julianne Moore, about a woman whose young son is kidnapped as she drives through a predominantly black neighbourhood, and the extreme unrest that is generated when the predominantly white police spend far more resources trying to solve the case than they ever spend on crimes in which black people are the victims.

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The BBC have also failed to report on the biggest news story to hit South Yorkshire since the failure of the media, police, and local authorities to report on the mass rape of white girls by predominantly Pakistani Muslims, and BBC failure in tackling the sexual abuse within its own organisation.

Interrogated by police detective Lorenzo Council (Samuel L. Jackson), Brenda explains that as she was driving to her home in a neighboring town — that is, going from an area with a predominantly black population to one that's almost strictly white — a black man stopped her and forced her out of the car.

The rest of «Freedomland» deals with what happens when the urban housing projects of Dempsy, N.J. — the town in which the alleged crime took place — are sealed off by the police of the neighboring, predominantly white town, Gannon, as a way of smoking out the perpetrator.

In fact, in predominantly black portions of the city the police radio changes, with the operator stating that someone should «maybe» go and check the situation out, whereas in predominantly white areas the call changes and help is sent quicker.