Rick Cabot Sociology

The film touches on a host of social problems, including racial inequality, racial profiling, and institutional racism. The film follows a dozen characters as their lives intertwine, and their dissatisfaction with life is exposed. Anthony and Peter are two black men angry at the world for its perceived anti-blackness. Rick Cabot is the district attorney of Los Angeles and his wife, Jean is a high-strung woman filled with contempt for the people who serve her.
Two black men, Anthony and Peter, leave a coffee shop and discuss racism in our society. They pass by a middle-class white couple, LA District Attorney Rick Cabot and his wife Jean. She clings to her husband, and Anthony points out that they’re the ones who should feel threatened, as they are the only black men in a sea of white people. They pull out guns, run up to the couple, and carjack them. The scene switches to a white LAPD officer talking to a black
There is the sense that he is not giving his family the attention they deserve. He opens his mother’s refrigerator and notices there is almost no food. John arrives at the scene of a horrific car accident, and runs towards an overturned car. He finds a woman stuck inside, who happens to be Christine. At first she angrily tells him not to save her, but there is a fire in a nearby car, and gasoline is spilled all over the road. She acquiesces and lets him break her from the car. The nearby car catches is engulfed in flames, and John’s fellow officers try to pull him out of the car before he can save Christine, but he risks his life and goes back into the car to pull her out just seconds before it explodes. Jean is talking about her dissatisfaction with life with a friend on the phone, and later slips and falls. His Hispanic maid, who she has been treating poorly, drives her to the hospital. In the hospital, she tells the maid she’s the best friend she