A police informant is shot down in the street by two men armed with shotguns. Husband admits to shooting and killing his wife. Protagonist is kicked in the face, knocked out, taken hostage at gunpoint and roughed up to the point his face is bloody.

The N-word is used at least once referring to the household maid arrested for murder.

Cigarette smoking and social alcohol consumption is seen. Two policemen pose as drunkards.

People express racist attitudes when discussing the guilt or innocence of the black woman arrested.

Lots of intense racial stuff.