John Ryan in the Movie Crash

John Ryan in the Movie Crash

John Ryan is one of the characters from the movie Crash. His role in the movie is a racist cop who always seems to show hatred towards anyone he feels is a threat to him, mainly because him being a cop, he has the authority to do so over most people. He basically picks on anyone he feels is a nuisance to him. His circumstances in this movie are very interesting, especially the way it effects different situations and other characters from the movie.
When the city of L.A passes a minority act John Ryan's father looses his business, because almost all of his employees are working minorities. I think this adds or might even be the reason that causes John to become a racist individual towards others. It Probably also causes him to blame the minorities for the closure of his fathers business, (after all if it wasn’t for them being minorities his father would still have his business) influencing him to mistreat people of other races, just like when John pulls over the vehicle of a black couple Cameron and Christine, because he is racist he proceeds to do an unnecessary body search just because he has the authority and disrespectfully molests Christine in front of her husband, and this act probably makes him feel like he's getting even, maybe even like he's getting "revenge" on minorities for ruining his sick dads business. John blames minorities for ruining his dads business, because it was their ''fault'' that the act was passed, but in reality John just seems to need someone to blame maybe.
Officer John Ryan’s actions toward Christine cause her to mistrust him even though he is an officer, and of course an officer’s job is to help citizens. Later on down the road there is a serious car accident involving Christine. The reason she probably got into this accident was because her and her husband have been fighting a lot mainly because of the whole molestation that took place a few days before the accident. She seems upset and hurt and to dissoriented to be driving,...

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