Temple and Shipman — Donald Pfarrer

A young black man is stopped by cops on suspicion of rape. A fight breaks out and the kid is killed. Jeffrey Temple, the cop who threw the fatal punch, opposes the coverup contrived by his partners. The father of the dead kid, John Shipman, goes to the DA and demands justice. But what is justice? The narrative follows these two men, Temple and Shipman, towards a final, tragic climax.