The Glass Shield
Drama
Action
Thriller
Crime
In a world filled with violence... his only weapon is the truth!
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.
1994-09-16
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Cast
Director
Charles Burnett
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
Wanda De Jesus as Carmen Munoz
Michael Gregory as Dep. Roy Bush
Don Harvey as Dep. Jack Bono
Ernie Lee Banks as Mr. Woods
M. Emmet Walsh as Det. Jesse Hall
Monty Bane as Coroner
Julio Oscar Mechoso as Assistant D.A.
Sy Richardson as Mr. Taylor
Tommy Redmond Hicks as Reverend Banks
Joseph Walsh as Councilman Ross