| “ | Okay. Alright. I'm putting cases on all of you bitches! Huh. You think you can do this sh-t. Jake! You think you can do this to me?! You motherf--kers will be playin' basketball in Pelican Bay when I get finished with you! SHU program, ni--a. Twenty-three hour lockdown! I'm the man up in this piece! You'll never see the light of - who the f--k do you think you're f--kin' with? I'm the police, I run sh-t here. You just live here! Yeah, that's right, you better walk away! Go on and walk away, 'cause I'm gonna burn this motherfu--ker down. King Kong ain't got sh-t on me! | „ |
| ~ Harris cursing his neighbors as they abandon him |
Alonzo Harris is the main antagonist of the 2001 crime thriller Training Day. He is a corrupt homicide detective who uses rookie police officer Jake Hoyt to steal drug money in order to pay his debts to the Russian mob.
He is portrayed by Denzel Washington, who won the Oscar for Best Actor for his performance.
Overview[]
Harris is a highly decorated, but corrupt, detective in the Los Angeles Police Department's Homicide division. He has deep ties to the Russian mob, and often arrests or kills their enemies in return for large cash payments. He runs his neighborhood like his own personal kingdom, threatening people with imprisonment unless they run drugs for him and keeping a harem of young women, many of whom bear his children. His corruption is an open secret in the LAPD; his fellow officers know he is dirty, but they are too afraid of his mob connections to do anything about it.
In the film[]
Harris is assigned to evaluate Officer Jake Hoyt, who is up for promotion into the Homicide Department, by taking him out into the field. After explaining his philosophy of "street justice" to Hoyt, he busts a group of teenagers for smoking marijuana, and tells Hoyt to smoke it, forcing him to at gunpoint when he refuses. After Hoyt gets high, Harris tells him that the marijuana is laced with PCP, and laughs while Hoyt has a bad trip.
They visit Harris' snitch Roger, who warns him that the mob is after him, They later save a young girl from being raped by two addicts, and Hoyt finds her wallet. They then visit a drug dealer named Blue, whom Alonzo robs of $40,000 in drug money, and visit Sara, one of Harris' mistresses, with whom he has a young son. Harris sends Hoyt away while he has lunch with three high-ranking police officials nicknamed "The Three Wise Men", who advise him to leave town before the Russian mob kills him; Harris reassures them he has the situation under control, and gives them the $40,000 in return for a warrant to search Roger's house.
During the resulting raid, Harris seizes $4 million in drug money and keeps $1 million for himself. He then orders Hoyt to kill Roger; when Hoyt refuses, Harris kills Roger himself, and stages the crime scene to make it look like self-defense. Hoyt tries to arrest Harris, but Harris gets him to back down by threatening to end his career by making take a drug test, which will reveal PCP in his system.
Harris takes Hoyt to the house of one of his cronies, a gangster named Smiley, and leaves him there. Smiley tells Hoyt that the Russian mob will kill Harris for killing one of their men unless he pays them $1 million by midnight; Hoyt soon realizes that Harris order Smiley to kill him. Just as Smiley is about to shoot Hoyt, however, he finds the young girl's wallet, and reveals that she is his cousin. After she tells Smiley that Hoyt saved her, Smiley lets him go.
Hoyt catches up to Harris just as he is leaving Sara's apartment to pay off the Russians with Roger's money. He tries to buy Hoyt off with promotion to Homicide, but Hoyt refuses, determined to never become like Harris. Enraged, Harris tries to kill Hoyt, who subdues him by shooting him in the buttocks. Harris offers money to anyone in the neighborhood who kills Hoyt, but everyone refuses, having hated Harris for years for what he has turned their community into. Hoyt takes the stolen money, intending to turn it in as evidence, under the protection of Smiley and his gang, leaving Harris powerless to do anything about it.
Fearing for his life, Harris drives to LAX, intending to leave the country. Before he can escape, however, Russian mobsters gun him down.