The Glass Shield (1994)
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, whom he helped to arrest, he faces difficult decisions and puts himself into grave personal danger in the service of justice.
Release Date: 1994-09-16
Runtime: 109 minutes
Director: Charles Burnett
Budget: $5,000,000 USD
Revenue: $3,291,163 USD
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- Michael Boatman as Dep. J.J. Johnson
- Lori Petty as Dep. Deborah Fields
- Ice Cube as Theodore 'Teddy' Woods
- Erich Anderson as D.A. Ira Kern
- Bernie Casey as James Locket
- Richard Anderson as Watch Cmmdr. Clarence Massey
- Elliott Gould as Greenspan
- Victoria Dillard as Barbara Simms
- Michael Ironside as Det. Gene Baker
- Natalija Nogulich as Judge Helen Lewis
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