Badge of the Assassin

Three black revolutionaries gun down two New York City police officers. The subsequent investigation puts a white assistant DA and a black police detective on the trail of the killers that leads from New York to San Francisco and down to New Orleans.

Cast

James Woods

as Robert K. Tanenbaum, Assistant District Attorney

Yaphet Kotto

as Detective Cliff Fenton NYPD

Alex Rocco

as Detective Bill Butler NYPD

Pam Grier

as Alexandra 'Alie' Horn

Rae Dawn Chong

as Christine Horn

David Harris

as Lester Bertram Day

Steven Keats

as Lester Bertram Day

Larry Riley

as Herman Bell

Kelly Jo Minter

as Rachel Torres

Richard Bradford

as L.J. Delsa

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