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James Mangold Uses His Film ‘Cop Land’ to Call Out Police Officers Not Living in Neighborhoods They Protect

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In thinking about the protests that have continued across the country over the death of George Floyd, director James Mangold reflected back on his 1997 film “Cop Land” and criticized cops who don’t live in the cities and neighborhoods they protect.

Mangold’s “Cop Land” stars Sylvester Stallone, Robert De Niro and Ray Liotta and is about a New Jersey Sheriff who discovers that his town, populated by a number of New York City police officers, is a front for corruption and other mob connections.

In a Twitter thread from Sunday, Mangold said he was forced by the Weinsteins at Miramax to change his film because they claimed the premise of cops no longer living in the five boroughs of New York was “impossible.” “They said it was impossible

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