Redemption

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White corrupt racist cops along with other follow officers who brutally beat and murder a black man who has a wife and son. (Based in the 60's and 70's)A young kid named Edward Hayward Jr. father was killed when he was one years old. The mother witnessed the murder and couldn't handle it. She became strung out on drugs. Because of her history of suicidal behavior, she was thought to have committed suicide. At the age of six he was told that his father was murdered by the police, because his family couldn't afford a lawyer, the cops got off. He decided to go to law school to become a lawyer. Because of the murder of Edward's father, one of the officers involved lost custody of his son when his wife left him and he became an alcoholic. The son was put in foster home after foster home all the while wanting pay back to the family he thought caused it all.