Investigating a Disturbance

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A jumpy white cop answering a disturbance call keeps mistaking harmless things in black men's hands for weapons, while a white man loaded with real firearms strolls right past him.
Dark Comedy
Satire
Racism
Police Brutality
Police
Escalation
Comedic
Absurd
social commentary

A mustachioed patrol officer in aviator sunglasses rolls up to an alley to look into a reported disturbance. A young black man turns around holding a popsicle, and the officer panics and opens fire. Next he comes upon two men, one black and one white, each eating a banana; he shoots only the black man and politely tells the white one to clear the area for his own safety. A white man draped in rifles and ammunition belts then wanders out, and the officer waves him along without a second look before gunning down a black man carrying a stuffed toy giraffe. By nightfall the alley is a crime scene, and when the police chief arrives and lifts his coffee cup to take a sip, the officer shoots him too, then shrugs it off as an honest mistake. The sketch pushes the officer's double standard into deliberately absurd slapstick to satirize racially biased police shootings.

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