‘9-1-1’ Season 4 Consultant Has a ‘Scary’ Similarity to Angela Bassett’s LAPD Sergeant
Over the first three seasons of Fox’s “9-1-1,” the Ryan Murphy-produced first-responder drama has not shied away from the topics of racial discrimination and police brutality. Those subjects intersect regularly for star and executive producer Angela Bassett’s character, Athena Grant, a Black woman who is a field sergeant in the Los Angeles Police Department. But going into Season 4 amid Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, “9-1-1” showrunner Tim Minear wanted to find a way to explore those issues even more directly — so he hired Cheryl Dorsey, a Black woman who is a former LAPD field sergeant, as a consultant for the writers’ room. “We have explored these ideas of (Athena) being an African American woman who is a sergeant on the LAPD. And we will continue to explore those ideas,” Minear told TheWrap ahead of the Season 4 premiere on Monday. “And when the unrest happened this summer, I saw Cheryl Dorsey — a former LAPD field sergeant, as it turned out — being interviewed. And she’s an activist now and she’s written a book called ‘Black and Blue’ and it’s about police reform and racism amongst the...
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