I cursed myself for not insisting that that kid cop do his job better.
Our ex-governor officially became a talk show queen, our hometown NBA hero was struck by tragedy and a kid cop made Mayor Daley blow his top.
Waiting out in the street, I drained the bottle just as the bald kid cop zoomed back up: "What is your problem, sir?
Instead of hunching ove a Macbook Pro, he spent his childhood loitering around the movie rental store with neighborhood kids, copping VHS tapes one-by-one to become the walking b-movie encyclopedia he is today.
Instead of hunching ove a MacBook Pro, he spent his childhood loitering around the movie rental store with neighborhood kids, copping VHS tapes one by one to become the walking B-movie encyclopedia he is today.
When he was a kid, the cops could not contain him.
"If you were in the field of human services, I think everybody knew that kids and cops — especially urban cops who were predominately white at the time and urban kids who were predominately of color — were just not understanding each other," Paris said.
When I got back to the hotel, some of the elements of '68 had assembled themselves pulsing rock-and-roll, streams of kids, Chicago cops, summer heat.
His brother talked of how he loved to play ice hockey, and a cousin laughingly told of how Christopher, as the youngest, was always the one "in prison" when the kids played cops and robbers or cowboys and Indians or even, he joked, Monopoly.
The film is an intimate portrait of people affected by violence: including community activists, kids, and cops.
