Sentences with phrase «torturing black folks»
Mildred accused them of being more interested in torturing black folks than solving crimes.
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The cops, she argues publicly, are «too busy torturing black folks to solve actual crimes,» and McDonagh appears to be arranging a fairly straightforward conflict between a badass, go - it - alone crusader and the violent, prejudiced, incompetent powers that be.
Observe the tone established by this trailer, particularly the line, «The police department is too busy torturing black folks to solve actual crimes.»
«It seems to me the police department is too busy torturing black folks to solve actual crime.»
When she accuses Willoughby of being «too busy torturing black folks» to solve her daughter's murder, there's an unmistakable echo of the case of the recently pardoned Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who in his anti-immigrant crackdown fever ran an office that failed to investigate hundreds of sex crimes against children.
Mildred, whose bottomless grief has hardened into a single - minded, nothing - left - to - lose crusade, bulldozes through anyone unwise enough to stand in her way: not just the cops who, in her words, are «too busy torturing black folks to solve actual crimes,» but also neighbors, asshole teenagers, and the town's condescending Catholic priest, who she dresses down with a juicy, show - stopping monologue.
«It seems to me,» Mildred tells a TV reporter, «the police department is too busy torturing black folks to solve actual crimes.»
Hayes calls him out on television, saying, «Seems to me the police department is too busy torturing black folk to solve actual crimes.»