It's heavily implied way later that he purposely had his gun be unable to get drawn so that the police could exploit the "tragedy" in their case to derestrict police.
More spoilers:
The head chief and close friend to the main character turned out to have a KKK outfit hidden in his office and had this whole racist convoluted plan with members of the elite.
Legit there was a whole black-and-white flashback episode that had a pretty big moment of showing the hollowness of libs.
Yea that scene with the gun massive turned me off at the start. Happy I stuck around till episode 5 and especially 6, which were both fucking brilliant. Lindelof is definitely a lib but seems he genuinely tried to engange with some more radical themes and didn't hold back on expressing the inherent white supremacy inherent in the American police system (im sure other people on the writing team had a lot of input into this as well, don't wanna give him all the credit.)
It is not presented as a systemic issue, it is presented as a "few bad apples" issue. Literally all the protagonists are cops. Maybe in the flashbacks it is presented as systemic, but this is classic liberal attitude of "yeah the CIA used to run drugs and overthrow democracies, but no one was ever held accountable so they probably don't do that anymore, you conspiracy theorist."
It's also pro-torture and pro-imperialism. The main character decides to become a cop after the extrajudicial killing of an anti-imperialist vietnamese by cops based on the word of a 9-year-old.
Spoilers:
It's heavily implied way later that he purposely had his gun be unable to get drawn so that the police could exploit the "tragedy" in their case to derestrict police.
More spoilers:
The head chief and close friend to the main character turned out to have a KKK outfit hidden in his office and had this whole racist convoluted plan with members of the elite.
Legit there was a whole black-and-white flashback episode that had a pretty big moment of showing the hollowness of libs.
Yea that scene with the gun massive turned me off at the start. Happy I stuck around till episode 5 and especially 6, which were both fucking brilliant. Lindelof is definitely a lib but seems he genuinely tried to engange with some more radical themes and didn't hold back on expressing the inherent white supremacy inherent in the American police system (im sure other people on the writing team had a lot of input into this as well, don't wanna give him all the credit.)
It is not presented as a systemic issue, it is presented as a "few bad apples" issue. Literally all the protagonists are cops. Maybe in the flashbacks it is presented as systemic, but this is classic liberal attitude of "yeah the CIA used to run drugs and overthrow democracies, but no one was ever held accountable so they probably don't do that anymore, you conspiracy theorist."
It's also pro-torture and pro-imperialism. The main character decides to become a cop after the extrajudicial killing of an anti-imperialist vietnamese by cops based on the word of a 9-year-old.