Black, White and Blue

Episode aired Mar 22, 2000
TV-14TV-14
43m

IMDb RATING

7.6/10

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Crime Drama Mystery

A lapse in judgment by two police officers results in two African-Americans killing a white teen in Harlem. The case promises to set off a racial powder-keg, and it drives a split between be... Read allA lapse in judgment by two police officers results in two African-Americans killing a white teen in Harlem. The case promises to set off a racial powder-keg, and it drives a split between between Jack McCoy and Adam Schiff.A lapse in judgment by two police officers results in two African-Americans killing a white teen in Harlem. The case promises to set off a racial powder-keg, and it drives a split between between Jack McCoy and Adam Schiff.

IMDb RATING

7.6/10

255

YOUR RATING

- Constantine Makris
Writers
- Dick Wolf
- Lynne E. Litt(teleplay by)
- Matt Witten(teleplay by)
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Trivia
When Kevin Smith contacted his agent and requested to appear in an episode of Law & Order (1990), he was asked if he wanted to be a suspect or defense attorney. Smith said that he simply wanted to play "the guy who leads them to the guy who leads him to the guy who leads them to the suspect." Smith later talked about it in further detail in An Evening with Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder (2006).

Connections
Referenced in An Evening with Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder (2006)

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6/10

Parsing out the blame

This Law And Order episode has Jerry Orbach and Jesse Martin investigating the beating death of a white teen found in a basement apartment entrance in Harlem. An investigation leads to the arrest of a couple of local youths.

Who say they did it because they saw a white kid being let out of a patrol car and assumed him to be a snitch of some kind. There was a racial incident that night already and tempers were running high.

Just how culpable are the two white officers who let him off? There's a big difference of opinion between Sam Waterston and Steven Hill and with the New York County DA and the Feds. This is what drives the story.

I'm not sure this one was resolved to anyone's satisfaction. In the end it looks everybody has a beef with the resolution.

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