Word: copping
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...Meese. Still, he may have been slightly taken aback when he learned that a warrant for his arrest had been issued. Meese's trouble started two weeks ago, when a municipal court clerk in Los Angeles accidentally discovered the five-year-old warrant while scanning computer records. The top cop, it seems, had committed the crime of jaywalking in 1980, right in front of Ronald Reagan's California campaign headquarters. His fine: $10. When Meese, then Reagan's chief of staff, did not pay the penalty, it automatically increased to $130.50, and a bench warrant was issued for his arrest...
Fortunately (and predictably) the more developed plots turn out considerably better. Graham (Don Cheadle) threatens to be pious when a District Attorney (Brendan Fraser) offers to help his delinquent younger brother Peter (Larenz Tate) in exchange for covering up evidence that exculpates a racist cop. Impressively, this tragic family story is delivered with understanding and humanity...
...narrative trajectories of a novice, racially-sensitive white cop (Ryan Phillippe) and an affluent, light-skinned black woman (Thandie Newton) asks hard questions about the nature of modern American racism—silent but virulent...
...typical comedy sequel reverses the plot of the first film and tries to augment the parts that made the original funny. In Ms. Congeniality, tough cop Gracie Hart begrudgingly turns into a beautiful woman (this is, like, so hard for Bullock) while fighting crime at a beauty pageant; in Armed and Fabulous, the glam has gone to Hart’s head and she must shed her egotism and the Gucci before she can save her best friend Cheryl, the pageant queen from the first (Heather Burns...
...third tale features the fantastic Clive Owen as Dwight, yet another mentally-addled hero. Dwight is chasing crooked cop Jackie Boy, who is played with gleeful and gravelly-voiced creepiness by Benicio del Toro. Watching the two foils interact—Dwight as the shining protector of women, Jackie-boy as the sinister beater of barmaids—is another of the film’s great interplays. In a wry sequence guest-directed by Quentin Tarantino, the half-decapitated Jackie Boy taunts a hallucinating Dwight...