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| “ | Ain't that sweet, big macho cop lost his girl. Who says romance is dead. | „ |
| ~ Sextram to Alexander about Steele. |
Sergent Steve Sextram is the secondary antagonist in the 2001 crime-drama film, L.A.P.D.: To Protect and to Serve. He is a crooked police officer that is involved with Lieutenant James Alexander and his criminal activities.
He was portrayed by the late Wayne Crawford.
Biography[]
Nothing is known about Sextram's past but became a police officer and went corrupt. Prior to the film, Sextram was called in about domestic abuse. Once he got there, the husband was beating his wife. Sextram uses his nightstick and holds the abuser with a chokehold but uses his strength to break loose and charges at Sextram with a butcher knife. After Sextram kills the abusive husband, the wife and children started screaming and hitting Sextram for the murder. He also had a relationship with a woman named Kimberly Stinson.
In the film, Sextram is first seen in the police department congratulating Officers Sam Steele and Richard Wade on stopping the arm robbers that occur in the opening sequence and attends at Meyerling's party. He has a chat with Wade, describing the party as a Hotel California. He asks Wade if he ever killed someone before and tells him his story killing a domestic abuser. He later to get with Kimberly, who reminds him she's only a guest for Meyerling and leaves. Sextram then hits on another woman. In the kitchen, he talks to Alexander and some other officers about his dislike for minorities analyzing and questioning him.
After meeting with Steele's father at his store and heads back to the police station, Steele and Wade witness their follow police officers Alexander, Sextram, Meyerling, and Falco stealing items from the wholesale imports store and selling them to the pawnshop to get money for another party at Meyerling's place. Wade tries to report back to the police station about the burglary, but Steele stops him and is payoff by Meyerling for not ratting them out, allowing his silence to be bought.
Later at night, Steele arrives at the party, Meyerling tells Alexander and Sextram about Steele being angered, who confronts and gets into a fight with Sextram. Alexander and other officers stop them and went back to drinking. Later that night, after Sextram having sex with a prostitute in the back seat, he has a conversation with Alexander about trusting Steele and Wade and keeping secret about their corruption.
After Steele's father, Stuart gets robbed and shot, his son, Wade, Alexander, and Sextram arrive at the scene and stealing a Pepsi drink. While Meyerling, Sextram, and Falco selling some of the stolen items, a homeless man sees them. Falco catches him and Sextram orders Meyerling to kill the homeless man, but fails after he quickly flees from the scene. Assuming he didn't see anything, they leave and continue to sell the stolen items.
In the police department's men's locker room, while Steele tries to call Kimberly, he is confronted by Alexander and Sextram about Meyerling being caught by the IA and having loose ends. Alexander tells Steele about their fathers gotten into of misunderstandings. At the Internal Affairs, Kimberly reports them that Sextram assaulted and raped her after leaving the party.
After Meyerling makes a deal with the IA and killed in an explosion, Steele accuses Alexander and Sextram of Meyerling's mysterious death. Alexander chastises Steele for being insensitive and accusing him of having something to do with the unfortunate accident. Steele threatens Alexander and Sextram if something happens to Wade and his family. Alexander understands him and Sextram claims that their all on the same team and continue their conversation at the pawnshop.
Realizing that Sextram killed Kimberly Steele is filled with anger and decides to confront the crooked cops with Wade, taking matters into their own hands once and for all. Arriving at the pawnshop and goes to the back office, Steele and Wade confront the crooked officers in a standoff. While preparing to fight off the crooked cops, Detective Jack Kirby arrives and tries to arrest Steele and Wade and reveals that he killed Steele's father. While doing so, he shot and killed by Wade. impress with Wade's shot and stating that he never liked Kirby, Alexander tries to convince Steele and Wade from shooting him, but they refused and have a shootout with them. Sextram is killed by Steele during the shootout.