Supressing Bobby Seale

Hey, there, I'm surprised no one has commented on this. For some reason the filmmakers decided to make the marshalls who beat up and shackled Bobby Seale both African-American. Now, Bobby Seale complained that he was being treated like a slave, being denied his right to speak for his own defense at trial. Do you think the filmmakers wanted to avoid the image of a white man supressing him, so they purposefully made the marshalls black, or do you think they used original courtroom artist's reports and the marshalls maybe were both black in real life? Anyway, it sort of made me sad that the film showed two black men supressing someone whose mission in life was to help them, but who knows whether that really happened or if it was all made up to avoid interpretations of racial motivations by having the abusers be the same race as the victim?

"Enough of that technical talk, Foo!"