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The Glass Shield (1994)

The Glass Shield (1994)

Action Drama Crime Thriller

In a world filled with violence... his only weapon is the truth!

Release Date: 1994, September 16
Directors: Charles Burnett
Countries: France, United States of America
Production: CiBy 2000, Byrnes Schroeder Walker Productions, Miramax
Cast: Ice Cube, Michael Ironside, M. Emmet Walsh, Elliott Gould, Don Harvey, Michael Gregory, Julio Oscar Mechoso, Joseph Walsh, Erich Anderson, Wanda De Jesus, Lori Petty, Sy Richardson

Overview:

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.