Sentences with phrase «american police detective»

This may be the answer: Peele produces and Spike Lee directs this fact - based thriller of an African - American police detective, played by John David Washington (Denzel's son), who in 1978 infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan to mess up its hateful deeds.

It's directed by Robert Siodmak, who made more film noirs than any other director, and it is one of his darkest, a gangster drama seeped in shadows, corruption, and psychosis, with Victor Mature (in what I believe is his best noir role) a as Lt. Candella, an Italian - American police detective who takes the pursuit of small - time gangster Martin Rome (Richard Conte) personally.

An African American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.

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According to Cuban news accounts, some 2,000 people have been involved in the inquiry, in which police detectives have questioned neighbors of the diplomats (who said they did not recall hearing anything unusual), Cuban doctors (who wondered why the Americans had never sought attention for their acute problems) and their own battery of scientists and technologists.

While in voluntary service in 1969, I was helping serve daily breakfast to African - American children when ci ty police detective spread false rumors about us to the suppliers who were donating food to our church - run program, and the free food stopped temporarily.

Lockwood was a detective for many years and he is a former president of the Afro - American Police Association of Buffalo.

Other honorees include African - American world heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson, who was sentenced to jail time for his relationship with white women, and Detective Omar Edwards, a police officer who was fatally shot chasing down a man who broke into his car.

Detective Yuseff Hamm, 49, is a 15 - year veteran of the NYPD and president of the Guardians Association, the fraternal organization that represents African - American police officers in the city.

As Police Commissioner James Gordon (Scott Patterson — Gilmore Girls) tries to calm the fears of Gotham's citizens regarding the butcher called Jack the Ripper, the masked vigilante Batman (Bruce Greenwood — American Crime Story) indulges in his own detective work — with the help of confident, capable Selina Kyle (Jennifer Carpenter — Dexter)-- to stop the Ripper's murderous spree.

It's the early 1970s, and Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) is the first African - American detective to serve in the Colorado Springs Police Department.

Based on the Danish / Swedish drama Broen, the American version takes place on the U.S. and Mexican border where a murdered body on a bridge between El Paso and Juarez bring together El Paso detective Sonya Cross (Diane Kruger) and Chihuahua State Police detective Marco Ruiz (Demián Bichir) to

As Police Commissioner James Gordon (Scott Patterson — Gilmore Girls) tries to calm the fears of Gotham's citizens regarding the butcher called Jack the Ripper, the masked vigilante Batman (Bruce Greenwood — American Crime Story) indulges in his own detective work — with the help of confident, capable Selina Kyle (Jennifer Carpenter — Dexter)-- to stop the Ripper's murderous spree.

Charlton Heston is a stiff, straight - arrow Mexican government agent Mike Vargas whose planned honeymoon with his American bride Susie (Janet Leigh) is derailed by a sensationalistic murder and police detective Hank Quinlan (Orson Welles), a bloated, blustery grotesque with a doughy face and an ill manner who has a habit of creating evidence to speed the process of justice.

Jordan Peele, Jason Blum and Spike Lee are teaming up for «BlacKkKlansman,» a film that stars John David Washington as real - life Colorado Springs detective Ron Stallworth, the first African - American police officer who went undercover to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.

Bunny Lake is an American child kidnapped in London, Carol Lynley her terrified mother, Keir Dullea her concerned uncle, Anna Massey her harassed teacher, Noel Coward her sleazy landlord, and Laurence Olivier the shrewd police detective trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together.

Bunny Lake is an American child kidnapped in London, Carol Lynley her terrified mother, Keir Dullea her concerned uncle, Anna Massey her harassed teacher, Noel Coward her sleazy landlord, and Laurence Olivier the brainy police detective trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together.

The volatile culture of the setting enriches the procedural but it's the partnership of American homicide detective Sonya Cross (Diane Kruger), an obsessive, brilliant, by - the - book cop with borderline Asperger's symptoms, and Chihauhau State Police detective Marco Ruiz (Demian Bichir), a moral cop in an amoral system who latches on to this cross-jurisdictional case because it may allow him to do real police work unencumbered by corrupt bosses, that defines thePolice detective Marco Ruiz (Demian Bichir), a moral cop in an amoral system who latches on to this cross-jurisdictional case because it may allow him to do real police work unencumbered by corrupt bosses, that defines thepolice work unencumbered by corrupt bosses, that defines the show.

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According to the American Kennel Club, some of the great Bloodhounds in this country have brought about more convictions for police departments than have the best human detectives.