'Seven Seconds' puts a dramatic spin on tensions around law enforcement and race relations
It takes roughly 55 seconds from the opening of "Seven Seconds" for the nightmare at the core of the new Netflix drama to begin.
A white cop, and anxious father-to-be, is rushing to the hospital when he accidentally strikes a black teenager riding a bike along a desolate park road in Jersey City, N.J. His white superior officer, fearing a horrible backlash - "A white cop and a black kid ... there are no accidents anymore" - convinces him to leave the scene without reporting the incident, the battered youth bleeding and hidden from plain view in a snow-covered ditch.
The teen's parents are racked by grief,
