In the film “Out in the night” it shows how a group of 4 lesbian african-american young women were sexually and violently threatened by a man. This incident happened in a neighborhood in New York City. The only thing these young women did was to defend themselves. Unfortunately, this didn’t end up good because they were injuries on both sides. That man ended up getting stabbed by one of them but as a result of self-defense. When the police arrived the young group of African-american were charged for serious crimes including gang assault and attempted murder. All this was really unfair because they were only trying to defend themselves.
In this film we can see the incompetence of the police when they’re doing their job because how is it possible that they blame an innocent group of young women who were just defending themselves instead of the man who was harassing them. He’s the only one that should’ve been imprisoned with serious charges. He was only being racist to them and was most likely homophobic because when he realized they were lesbians that’s when he started to get violent against them. A police officer’s job is to make sure everyone is and feels safe, they are the ones who are supposed to protect us, the citizens but unfortunately this is not how things work. This type of situation wasn’t viewed good at all, especially all over social media. They really transmitted this news as “Attack of the killer lesbian”. Their trial became racialized because of the way they started to get known as. Everyone literally wanted to make the young women look guilty as if they wanted to get raped intentionally. Everything was being put up against them and they had no choice but to plead guilty.
