At 5 a.m., German police kicked in the front door of the modest apartment house in working-class Essen and, guns drawn, ordered an unsuspecting family out of bed. Then they hauled off a 22-year-old college student as his stunned parents watched. The intro is from a Boston Globe story that continues: “This wasn’t a scene from a big-screen police thriller. But it had Hollywood’s fingerprints all over it.”
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Hollywood Uses Police Around World as Private Enforcers
Posted by: Jon Newton August 11, 2004 06:00 AMAt 5 a.m., German police kicked in the front door of the modest apartment house in working-class Essen and, guns drawn, ordered an unsuspecting family out of bed. Then they hauled off a 22-year-old college student as his stunned parents watched. The intro is from a Boston Globe story that continues: “This wasn’t a scene from a big-screen police thriller. But it had Hollywood’s fingerprints all over it.”