Seriously? Why are the LAPD beefing up security at private movie theaters? Do they think the F. Gary Gray-directed biopic Straight Outta Compton is so good that it'll make otherwise civilized Angelenos turn homicidal? If that's the case, then why wasn't extra police presence requested for biopics like The Imitation Game or Theory of Everything? Probably because those precious biopics about precious white men were not well executed and didn't have that whole likelihood of inciting riots thing, which is what the cops are thinking, right? Or are they just intimidated by a mainstream film made by and for audiences of color, which is so rare that it's treated like a terrorist plot? The cops are probably not stoked on the fact that the film portrays the LAPD as the racist murderers that they are.
This week marks the 50 year anniversary of the Watts riots, so the LAPD brass think that rioters are like magazine editors that only operate on round number anniversaries. But can the LAPD afford these special details at the movies when they are spending all of our taxpayer money on lawsuits for police brutality (and murder) like this, this, this, this, this, and especially this. In 2015, the LAPD have shot 25 people and killed 13. Yet there have been no acts of gun violence by black movie theater patrons in Los Angeles in the same year. You do the math.
Maybe the beefed up police presence is all a reaction to the Trainwreck and other high profile violent incidents at movie theaters, all perpetrated by psychopathic white American males.
Fuck racist policing strategies. Go see this movie.