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Dixon Cannon

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Ditto. 'Gangster Squad'. What a shoot-em-up! There must be slugs to this day lying around on Sunset Blvd! -dixon cannon

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Ditto. 'Gangster Squad'. What a shoot-em-up! There must be slugs to this day lying around on Sunset Blvd! -dixon cannon

GangsterSquad.jpg

Love L.A. city hall in the background. I saw the crew film part of this in Chinatown about eight months ago. Do you know if Anthony Mackie's character of Coleman Harris (3rd from the right) was based on a real detective of the time? There actually were a few Blacks on the LAPD in the late-'40s.
 

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Love L.A. city hall in the background. I saw the crew film part of this in Chinatown about eight months ago. Do you know if Anthony Mackie's character of Coleman Harris (3rd from the right) was based on a real detective of the time? There actually were a few Blacks on the LAPD in the late-'40s.

Here is a photo and article about the actual 'Squad'. I don't see a black detective in the photo. I tend to think that 'Coleman Harris' is a fiction. -dixon cannon

http://www.scpr.org/blogs/newmedia/2013/01/10/11934/photos-the-real-life-gangster-squad-and-mobster-mi/

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P.S. A little additional infor on the squad and Cohen's organization: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-gangstercastflash,0,6866586.htmlstory
 
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