Forget about the kid in the ditch, "He's nothing." The boy's parents, devoted and pious Latrice and Isiah Butler (the brilliant Regina King and the marvelous Russell Hornsby) also become victims - right from the get go. Fearing an incredible backlash from the (mostly black) community over the recklessness of a white cop's actions against a black kid, DiAngelo orders Pete to leave the scene, and instructs the rest of the team to clean up the evidence. What does he do? What any selfish cop would do. DiAngelo follows the blood trail to a ditch where he finds Brenton's broken body, and a serious pool of blood. This thought would cross anyone's mind when seeing someone critically hurt, but a cop.well, they're obligated to help. It's one's moral duty to render aid to someone who is injured. DiAngelo, with the rest of his team in the backseat of his seized-from-a-drug-dealer sports car, arrive on scene to find Pete still behind the wheel of his slightly damaged SUV, and a blood trail leading to a ditch. The driver of the bicycle is a young, black teenager named Brenton a suspected "banger" from Jersey City's most feared gang. All we see is a bicycle tire spinning, and a homemade paper seagull attached to the frame.the significance of which becomes quite compelling when we do learn the nature of the two. Thankfully, we're spared from the gory view. He's fine, but what's under the car is not. Without a visible cue to the audience, Pete slams on the breaks and wipes out. The roads are slick, the snow is falling. It's the early-morning hours after Valentines Day, and Pete is rushing to the hospital to meet his pregnant wife. This team will do virtually anything for their leader.no, scratch that, will do anything at all for DiAngelo. Narc veterans "Manny" Gary Wilcox (a convincing Patrick Murney) and Felix Osorio (a shining Raúl Castillo) round-out the four-man Special Investigations and Gang Unit of the JCPD. The two share a loose familial bond but that's enough for DiAngelo to vouch for Pete and to know that he can trust him to fall-in-line when needed. DiAngelo's newest recruit is the young, soon-to-be-a-daddy, Pete Joblonski, a cop transferred in from a "better part of the city", at DiAngelo's behest. Think Denzel Washington's character in Training Day and you'll get a really good idea of Mike DiAngelo's personality. Mike, who has no children of his own, takes young, and mostly naïve, officers under his wing and shows them the ropes with some tough-love and conditioning. Mike DiAngelo (a chilling David Lyons), resilient and respected among his team, and officers within the department. Seven Seconds centers on a Jersey City PD narcotics team, and their possible cover-up of the hit and run of a black teenage boy.
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