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| “ | Lemme tell you both something. I've been keeping you people in line in this city for years. What I did to your girl that night I could do to any of you, any time, any place. That's my prerogative. I could even bust a cap in your black ass if I feel like it and nothing would be done about it. I wish the two of you had been blown up instead of good white folks. Get it? | „ |
| ~ Landers bragging about his crimes to Ron Stallworth and Patrice Dumas. |
Andy Landers was a major antagonist in the 2018 Spike Lee movie BlacKkKlansman.
He was portrayed by Frederick Weller, who is a cousin of actor Peter Weller.
History[]
An officer in the Colorado Springs Police Department, Landers was a corrupt and racist cop who used his police powers to harass, intimidate, and murder African Americans. In the 1970s he had shot a young African American male in the back, killing him. He despised Ron Stallworth, who was the first African American cop on the force.
After Stokley Carmichael (aka Kwame Ture) had given a speech to the Black Student Union at Colorado College, Landers pulled over the car he was riding in. He sexually assaulted the driver, the Black Student Union President Patrice and physically assaulted Carmichael.
When Ron and Flip Zimmerman successfully infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan, Landers was dismissive of the investigation. He deliberately tripped Ron in the hallway, before mocking him and calling him a racial slur. Later, he and Chief Bridges informed Ron that he was assigned to guard David Duke, which Landers found hilarious.
Later, at a local bar Landers saw both Patrice and Stallworth. Inviting himself to their table, he claimed that he could do what he wanted, even as far as shooting both of them, and nothing would be done. What Landers did not realize was that Stallworth was wired for sound, and had recorded everything he said. Stallworth asked Flip, Chief Bridges, and other detectives all dressed in plain clothes at the bar if they got what Landers said. Bridges had Landers arrested for official misconduct.
Trivia[]
- While based on a real cop in the CSPD, the real Ron Stallworth stated that the real cop had not behaved quite as badly as Landers had in the film.