justice for Martin (Amanda & Graham 2013). Unlike Rachel who vented her painful
emotions uncontrollably in court, Starr, the protagonist in the story, was trained in more
than thousands of times to provide the authentic information clearly and fight for her
friend’s innocence. Although Starr’s final defense failed, she successfully inspired public
resonance and encouraged more people to call for the integrated citizen-police relation-
ship. From the perspective of the police, respecting and believing in citizens equally help
them protect citizens’ safety and maintain peaceful social environment (Brunson P76). At
the end of the story, the police were fully engaged in the reconstruction activities of
helping African-American community to rebuild their homes, which not only achieved the
recognition of citizens, but also sustained their integration successfully. This idea intends
to let people change their subjective consciousness and break the inherent prejudice
against the outside world.
Based on their previous experiences and original beliefs, African-American com-
munity have developed a sense of fear and distrust with the public. By witnessing the
deaths of their close friends and family members with the gun of the police, their hatred of
society has instill into African-Americans from an early age, so any slightly excessive
behavior would lead them to make extremely aggressive resistance (Brunson P74). But
the problem is that people developed these slight rebellious behaviors unintentionally to
express their resistance, the emergence of affirmative action has became a barrier to
harmonious coexistence between African-Americans and the police (Miller P19).
Although people provoke movements as a common way to protect personal rights, accord-
ing to the casualties of the Los Angeles Riots in 25 years, violent conflicts cause more
citizens die in police resistance, which results in the serious disturbance of the society
(Jana 2017). Depending on that, affirmative action, as an institutional policy to counter
racial discrimination, ends up promoting racial differences and profound misunderstand-
ing rather than blurring racial boundaries.
This failed relationship between the police and the African-American community
has led to a lack of reasonably allocated differentiation and even a serious polarization in
the country. According to the census data of Lewis Mumford Center in 2011, Afri-
can-Americans tended to gather in certain areas of the United States. “Despite the recent
trend of African-Americans moving to the suburbs and assembling in the society, the
African-American community has always been a communication barrier in the whole
country” (Wang Xu & Yu Yue, P3). To be specific, the frequency of turmoils in St. Louisi-
ana where the proportion of African-Americans reached the highest at 32.1%, were 8.52%