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...York City's Harlem, says, "I think it's a message white America is sending, that you can do anything to a black person, even with evidence against you, and get away with it." She vows to tell the children she takes care of, "You are black; the policeman is an enemy. When you see the police officer, go away because no matter what you do you are guilty." Gwendolyn Young, executive director of the Louisville and Jefferson County Human Relations Commission in Kentucky, declared to a hundred people at a protest rally in Louisville that "in America black life...
...protagonist, an FBI agent named Ray Levoi (Val Kilmer), is assigned to the reservation mainly for public relations reasons; he's one-quarter Sioux. And not proud of it. But the squalor of Pine Ridge touches him, as do the Native Americans, led by a tough, funny tribal policeman (Graham Greene) and a sly, funny shaman (Chief Ted Thin Elk). Slowly, but with powerfully accumulating dramatic effect, they put Levoi in touch with his Indian heritage. And with the truth about the murder he is there to investigate. It turns out to be similar to the situation projected...
...Robert Luongo, a Kennedy-assassination buff from Florida, it seemed only natural to tell a policeman that he had Jack Ruby's pistol in his suitcase as he strolled near the U.S. Capitol. But when Luongo offered to show the historic weapon to House Speaker Tom Foley a few moments later, the cop arrested Luongo...
Nash has done his best to foster precisely this ambiguity. He includes obvious symbols of mixed sexuality such as a transvestite and a pair of castrated men, as well as more subtle devices. For example, the viewer is fooled by the darkness into believing that a policeman seated at his desk is actually Claire's black panther in cage...
Along the way, he received support from unlikely quarters. One sympathetic policeman helped him type the first legal filing. He was given court-appointed lawyers; and a former town councilwoman, Marge Brady, offered advice and support. "The thing that set Richard off against the town was the fact that they didn't take him seriously when he threatened to sue," she says. "That really inspired...