In my opinion it carries a contradictory massage and broadcasts bad reputation of the black community. Moreover, I have ultimately emphatized with _Sal_ becasue of the ruin of his life's work, but obviously the creator's intention was black people are still in the late 80's (and nowadays as well) being suppressed and are the victims of police brutality.
I loved how the camera work was shown the big fish-little fish dynamic. I mean the camera has shown the ones who are in a dominant position over and the ones who are in the submissive position under.
The movie holds a stong statement that black people can't live freely even in their neighbourhood, becasue the police could raid them down any time like when _Radio Raheem_ got strangled by white policemen.
But why I ultimately could emphatize _Sal_ at the end? Beacuse if we take into consideration who are working in that neighbouthood and how many of them black people I could count only two, _Mookie_ and _Senor Love Daddy_. All the others just hanging around on the streets and doing nothing useful. _Sal_ is the one who has built a pizzeria and an existence in the middle of a black neighbourhood, because he saw a market gap.
And okay, I understand they are bothered by the absence of black celebrities' pictures on the wall, wich represented to them they do not matter, but it's nonsense to me that it's worthy to start a sort of gang war against an old pizza guy. They are frustated the way they being treated every day for sure but this move is not the solution. I mean the gang war against _Sal_.
Furthermore, policemen's behaviour was unacceptable how they handled the fight between _Sal_ and _Radio Raheem_, and how they killed the latter. However, the answer which was given, violence to brutality was not the right thing to do, beacuse the broad audience's opinion remains the same or gets worse if they seeing such demolition which the black people are pulled off.