Yes, the White woman in the chair ignoring her and playing with the Latina woman's daughter is the judge, yes. The "crime" they arrested for in court, the accusing a police officer thing, doesn't exist at all, she was absolutely within her rights to request a female officer for the search and to accuse the male police officer in court.
But the system is corrupt and she had no one to stand with her, not even the woman playing with her daughter ignoring her pleas who was meant to be unbiased and standing for justice.
This is why there is so much emotion, so much pain, so many "chips" - this happens day in, day out, most of it away from the spotlight. Every once in a while the media throws us a bone - normally to cover something else up or for pundits' amusements - but many people are suffering behind the scenes, many are fighting behind the scenes. And people brushing aside the issues of race, saying that it went through a courts so it must be fair, spit in our faces and ignore reality, living in a bubble immune from all of this, which, as I said must be nice, too bad the rest of us can't. Even when academic proves the problems of racism and gender profiling and the intermix of the two and how lethal they are, they not only get brushed aside, they still get promoted, even on Mumsnet racial profiling has been promoted in these threads. Stomach turning. "Cracker" a term meaning whipcracker, slavedriver, someone in authority may make people uncomfortable, other racial profiling leaves people dead. The difference, the immunity some have, should be obvious but its hidden in the education and the media representation and all the other systems that need taken apart, that we're fighting with.