“The Black Panther still in prison after 46 years” Published by the Guardian Via. Youtube.
This Documentary entails the details of the events that had occurred during the Black empowerment times as well as the era of the Black Panthers. It highlights the death of two police officers that had been murdered in Harlem due to some of the events that had transpired with these conflicts. However the scapegoat and the suspect, Nineteen-year-old Jalil Muntaqim of the Black Liberation Army, was convicted and sent to prison. The documentary did not mention that the police officers were both white and black for the two officers, yet highlighted the importance of the white officer and lets the viewer assume both are white. Muntaqim was sentenced to prison for an indefinite time until he was finally released in October of 2020. “They brutalize people then when people defend themselves against the brutality, they act like they never antagonized” one commenter and viewer of the documentary stated, detailing how the depicted the events and how unfair and unconstitutional it is. The officers lives especially when of Caucasian descent is highlighted to be hundredfold important than that of those that fought with all their might to be actually seen as equals in society. All of these points suggest the underlying prejudice and how media can influence our decisions to criticize and formulate decisions to be able to create unbiased judgements of news.