Watching true crime shows was trendy entertainment until I saw my hometown on the screen.
and the ongoing conversation about police brutality urged me to face every moment of this trailer. Every passing second seemed to bring up memories that left me sad, frustrated, and embarrassed to call this place home., the crime documentary uncovers the alleged corruption of the Bakersfield Police Department and the fatal officer-involved shooting of Jorge Ramirez Jr.
The trailer opens with Colin warning,"This is one of the most powerful projects I've ever been involved with."Then a woman says,"I knew the homicide rate in Bakersfield was high. I didn't really know what that meant. Until I got here."Even when I reflect on my best memories from Bakersfield, my mind can't help but simultaneously think about stories of violence and murder that plagued the community. Stories I heard about but also experienced firsthand.
As children, you hear so many cautionary tales and are told which dangerous neighborhoods to avoid. For children with brown skin, like me, you are taught how to survive an interaction with police. Next, we're told Bakersfield has"the deadliest law enforcement in the country per capita" as the screen pans across a 2015 article fromI came from a complicated world. Members of my family were law enforcement, and we are Black. I didn't want to believe the statistics because it spelled danger for us from all sides.
Then, a narrator, over a hauntingly slowed down version of Dwight Yoakam's"Streets of Bakersfield," says that Bakersfield has"the highest rate of officer-involved deaths than anywhere in the country."
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