The Glass Shield Page #2

Synopsis: J.J. is a rookie in the Sheriff's Department and the first black officer at that station. Racial tensions run high in the department as some of J.J.'s fellow officers resent his presence. His only real friend is the other new trooper, the first female officer to work there, who also suffers similar discrimination in the otherwise all-white-male work environment. When J.J. becomes increasingly aware of police corruption during the murder trial of Teddy Woods, who he helped to arrest, he faces difficult decisions and puts himself into great personal danger in the service of justice.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Director(s): Charles Burnett
Production: Miramax
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Rotten Tomatoes:
64%
PG-13
Year:
1994
109 min
101 Views


at warehouse

at 5-2-0-0 Wood Avenue.

12-Adam-131, we're rolling,

Here we go, kid,

- What the hell are you doin'?

- Gettin' ready,

No! Hey! Hey!

Get off! Don't! Argh!

Get him off me!

Get him!

Hold him down!

Freeze!

Are you coverin' the back, mister?

Massey wants you,

Who's ahead?

Certainly not you, Jesse,

Deputy, you endangered the lives

of your fellow officers,

You were assigned to

watch the back of a building,

There was a burglary in progress,

I thought we had

captured the suspect,

Did it occur to you

there might be another suspect?

It occurred to me, yes,

Did it occur to you that that suspect

may have been carrying a gun?

We just can't seem to get people

around here to do their job,

Now, if criminals don't fear God,

they will this badge and this division,

- Now, do you want to be part of this force?

- Yes, sir,

All right! Your job won't make you soft,

it will harden you to the facts of our time,

And when you're on backup,

you back up, sir!

Yes, sir,

So, Mr, Johnson,

you still wanna be a peace officer?

Well, where else can I

make this kind of money, hm?

You could... sell junk bonds,

I thought this was supposed

to be a man's job,

Well, Trooper, you'd better

turn your shield in, then,

Or am I talkin' to the future sheriff

in these here parts?

They're gonna name this station

after me one day,

I'm sorry,

What?

- You can't be married,

- Look who is calling the pot black,

You know, you'd better lay off

the steak and doughnuts... honey,

- Good morning, everybody, Frank,

- Hey, how's it going, James?

- Rev, how you doin'? I'm sorry I'm late,

- James Locket, what kept you?

Let me tell you something, Rev,

Saving souls is a lot less time-consuming

than defending the innocent,

- All you gotta do is pray,

- But you get the guilty off too,

- They're easier to get off,

- Well, speaking of the guilty,,,

Ms, Marshall tells me the sheriff's

department is still following her,

- The sheriff's harassing you?

- Mm-hm,

Every day,

They won't leave us alone,

Hey,

Anything I can help you with?

- I got the results of the tests back,

- And?

They want me to start the treatments again,

Get another opinion,

This time the cancer's in my liver,

my back - it's everywhere,

I need to leave

the wife and kids somethin',

- Oh-ho!

- Hey, baby,

Hey, sweetie, how ya doin'?

Wanna see my night stick, huh?

What do ya think?

Yeah, I'd like to get busted by that,

Any unit, man down.

Possible homicide at 2-4-0- 1 West 125th.

What you got?

Well, he says he was stopped

in the intersection,

Two blacks got out of their car,

pulled a gun and asked for money,

When Mr, Greenspan there

said all he had was credit cards,

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