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The couple, who steamed up movie screens with a racy sex scene in Monster's Ball, are in final talks to star in a race drama, based on Nate Blakesee's bestseller Tulia: Race, Cocaine & Corruption In A Small Texas Town.

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Shooting is slated to begin at the end of April in New Orleans, Louisiana, according to website FilmStew.com.

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Certainly they are just shooting the interiors in NO. Be interesting to know if they'll do any location shooting in the Panhandle. (I'm not counting on it.)

Wonder if they'll mention the fact that several of the "innocent victims" admitted to the FBI that they did, in fact, sell cocaine to the undercover officer.

I haven't heard of the book. I assume it portrays all the lawmen as potbellied racist pigs, the arrestees as innocent victims drug out of their homes during Bible study, and the townspeople as missing most of their teeth and IQ points?


EDIT: Link to FBI Investigation

Curiously, this follow-up story was never covered in the big media.

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I haven't heard of the book. I assume it portrays all the lawmen as potbellied racist pigs, the arrestees as innocent victims drug out of their homes during Bible study, and the townspeople as missing most of their teeth and IQ points?

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Surely not, I can't imagine that anyone would ever do such a thing like that!

the people I know from the area said the drug dealers were guilty as sin and the cop got a bad rap

Yeah, several of the people arrested and released are already back in jail or completely broke even though they got huge settlements out of the deal.

The undeserved bad rap the cop got is racism and targeting blacks.

The deserved bad rap the cop got is incompetence, sloppy record-keeping, and legal problems before he got to Tulia.

He was convicted of perjury, but not for anything that happened regarding the Tulia Drug case.

Every time I read this thread title I read THORNBERRY instead of thornton and berry.