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...Angeles Police Department, whose misbehavior has been chronicled in recent years by Rolling Stone and other publications. It is also no coincidence that the dramatic Denzel Washington is the star of the film, exercising his considerable acting talents as a man simmering on the edge. Washington plays LAPD Detective Sergeant Alonzo Harris, a veteran who has invested far too much time in the gutter in his attempts to get his job done as an undercover police officer in the city. The movie traces the one day that Harris spends with a trainee, Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke), and Hoyt?...
...Ridge has the square-jawed profile and can-do resume--blue-collar background, Harvard, staff sergeant in Vietnam--to reassure even the most jittery parent contemplating a family vacation in Orlando. Ridge will need all that and more. He has not yet assumed his new post, which does not require a Senate vote. Officials have "red tagged" his security clearance, hoping he can get the O.K. in two weeks, not the eight months that some Administration officials have been waiting. In a series of White House meetings this week, Ridge started to divide his responsibilities into three baskets. The first...
Davis said the sergeant then got out of the cruiser...
...Davis and Good say two more officers came out and, following the orders of the sergeant, arrested Trombly, pinning him to the front hood of the second cruiser. Good claims that his client said nothing in the process and did not resist. By the students’ account, prior to his arrest, Trombly had not even directly exchanged words with any of the officers...
...said, ‘What did [Trombly] do? I want to file a complaint! How do I do that? How do I bail him out?’” Davis said. “The sergeant said, “Oh, so you wanna be a wise guy?’ and arrested...