I don't see how the opening scene of episode 5 falls under ambiguous situation, at least outside of YMMV. The scene is not shot in an ambiguous manner. The cop gets out of his car, unlatches his gun holster and keeps his hand on the gun approaching Cochran, and demands the license and registration. You can argue this point, but an officer having his hand fully on their gun when pulling someone over for not signaling a turn is obviously meant to be aggressive. If he had his hands on his weapon when Johnnie got angry or if he reached for the glove compartment without warning, that is one thing. But he already was treating Johnnie more harshly than this troper has ever known a traffic cop to do. At the very least, it is shot in an unambiguously threatening manner. Johnnie gives the officer his license, asks to get his registration calmly, and asks why he was pulled over calmly. The not signaling a lane change is very flimsy for pulling someone over, cops usually tail you and observe to make sure you make multiple or continuous violations of traffic rules even if they can pull you over for one. Either way, Johnnie reasonably denies the violation. Then the cop hostilely asks if it is his car, Johnnie states calmly again he will show it is his car by getting the registration. Then the cop aggressively asks Johnnie's kids essentially if Johnnie stole the car, which is what angers Johnnie. The cop immediately asks Johnnie to step out of the car and handcuffs him in front of his kids. Now a cop on traffic duty expects to deal with angry people, who is happy to get a ticket. How many of them do you think handcuff you and put you on your own car for that? Once the cop finds out who Johnnie is, he is uncuffed and allowed to leave. Meaning he realized Johnnie was not just an ordinary black man but at the time worked for the DA, and therefore he could get in trouble for how he was treating Johnnie. The whole point of the scene is summed up when Johnnie's daughters ask him if the cop called him the n word, to which he replies he didn't have to. If you think it is normal for cops to cuff you in front of your kids for getting angry at being pulled over and being suspected of theft, then we just come from different world views. It is obviously meant to be racial profiling, and at the very least the trope should be moved to YMMV.
I don't see how the opening scene of episode 5 falls under ambiguous situation, at least outside of YMMV. The scene is not shot in an ambiguous manner. The cop gets out of his car, unlatches his gun holster and keeps his hand on the gun approaching Cochran, and demands the license and registration. You can argue this point, but an officer having his hand fully on their gun when pulling someone over for not signaling a turn is obviously meant to be aggressive. If he had his hands on his weapon when Johnnie got angry or if he reached for the glove compartment without warning, that is one thing. But he already was treating Johnnie more harshly than this troper has ever known a traffic cop to do. At the very least, it is shot in an unambiguously threatening manner. Johnnie gives the officer his license, asks to get his registration calmly, and asks why he was pulled over calmly. The not signaling a lane change is very flimsy for pulling someone over, cops usually tail you and observe to make sure you make multiple or continuous violations of traffic rules even if they can pull you over for one. Either way, Johnnie reasonably denies the violation. Then the cop hostilely asks if it is his car, Johnnie states calmly again he will show it is his car by getting the registration. Then the cop aggressively asks Johnnie's kids essentially if Johnnie stole the car, which is what angers Johnnie. The cop immediately asks Johnnie to step out of the car and handcuffs him in front of his kids. Now a cop on traffic duty expects to deal with angry people, who is happy to get a ticket. How many of them do you think handcuff you and put you on your own car for that? Once the cop finds out who Johnnie is, he is uncuffed and allowed to leave. Meaning he realized Johnnie was not just an ordinary black man but at the time worked for the DA, and therefore he could get in trouble for how he was treating Johnnie. The whole point of the scene is summed up when Johnnie's daughters ask him if the cop called him the n word, to which he replies he didn't have to. If you think it is normal for cops to cuff you in front of your kids for getting angry at being pulled over and being suspected of theft, then we just come from different world views. It is obviously meant to be racial profiling, and at the very least the trope should be moved to YMMV.