The story of the infamous drug informant scandal in which 46 black people were wrongly arrested and prosecuted based solely on the word of a racist undercover operative is coming to the big screen.

Halle Berry and Billy Bob Thornton will star in Tulia.

I’m a huge Thornton fan. They couldn’t have casted a better Tom Coleman. The movie should also provide a great opportunity to bring national attention to the abuse of and over-reliance on drug informants.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 20th, 2007 at 8:17 am by Radley Balko and is filed under Police Informants, Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.