Women in Blue

[Plays on VOD platforms.] A timely, insightful, eye-opening, prophetic, educational, 85-minute, 2020 documentary that stresses changes that must be made in the male-dominated Minneapolis Police Department against the backdrop of the Black Lives Matter movement and high-profile, questionable killings of Jamar Clark and Justine Damond; focuses on African-American police officer Alice White who was successfully promoted to sergeant, medical crimes commander Melissa Chiodio who strived for equality and diversity in the department and eventually became captain of the Inver Grove Heights PD, and inspector Catherine ‘CJ' Johnson who is the head of the 3rd precinct; and consists of news clips and commentary snippets with Assistant Police Chief Medaria ‘Rondo' Arradondo who was promoted to chief after the firing of Police Chief Janeé L. Harteau, Mayor Betsy Hodges, police officers Erin Grabosky and Patrick Tinsley, and 4th precinct restaurant owner Sammy McDonald.
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