The Cop (Circle)

"What? You want some reparations too? I mean, Jesus Christ! Gimme a fucking break around here!"

- The Cop's last words before he's killed for his racist rant

The Cop is minor villain in the 2015 horror movie Circle. He is portrayed by Michael DiBacco.

Story
Fifty people awaken in a darkened room, arranged in two concentric circles around a black dome. Noises sound when they attempt to move or touch the others. When someone ignores the warning and leaves formation, a beam from the dome kills them, and the dead are eventually removed. As the others panic, a man attempts to calm them, but the device kills him mid-sentence. Thereafter, every two minutes, another person is killed. After several people die, they realize the technology allows them to use hand gestures to vote for who dies, while arrows on the floor show each person their own vote but not others'. They attempt to all boycott the vote, but someone is still randomly selected to die.

Following a college guy's suggestion, the group buys time to think by deciding in advance to eliminate the elderly for the next selections. The captives discuss where they are, how they got there, who has abducted them, and why. A young man, Eric, remembers attempting to flee Los Angeles, and others concur. Eric says that he was pulled into the air, later waking in a red room with other humans. The old man next in line agrees, saying he saw and heard aliens. The disbelieving group eliminates him instead of listening.

The College Guy (Circle) suffers the next elimination after he aggressively targets a 52-year-old cancer survivor over the objections of people who do not consider her elderly. Several people say they recognize the others: a man identifies the woman next to him as his wife, another man identifies the doctor who was having an affair with him, and a tattooed man is eliminated after he admits to a cop's accusation of domestic abuse. After several minorities are quickly eliminated, an African-American man claims the process has become racist. Several others dispute this, but when The Cop goes on a racist rant, he is selected next and killed.

Personality
The Cop at first was shown to appear to be a law-upholding man who wanted Raul Jimenez to pay for beating his girlfriend and killing an unknown man, but was later revealed to be a cynical racist when he thought that one of the African American men in the room was trying to gain everyone's sympathy because he wasn't white.

Quotes

 * "Here we go, let's all feel bad for the black guy. Cause he had to struggle so much more than we did." (The start to The Cop's racist rant)
 * "Like 'you people' don't get enough help." (The Cop referring to African Americans in general, revealing his racist beliefs.)
 * "You guys are all the same. You run around, you just want people to hand you things like you fucking earned it. That's what's wrong with this country now! Socialist bullshit!"