Hollywood Star Morgan Freeman Shows Up at Local Police Department to Help Select New Officers

Actor Morgan Freeman found a role he wanted to repeat, and the Gulf Shores Police Department in Alabama took him up on it.
Freeman owns property in Gulf Shores, according to WPMI-TV. In October 2021, he joined the police and several community residents as they conducted an oral screening of potential candidates for the department.
Freeman, an Academy Award winner, reprised the visit last week, the department posted on its Facebook page.

Actor Morgan Freeman paid a visit to the Gulf Shores Police Department Wednesday. — https://t.co/t80wz1bArv pic.twitter.com/w7WcrBgIYz
— WEAR ABC 3 (@weartv) February 1, 2023

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In 2021, as many black celebrities attacked the police, Freeman moved in a different direction.
“I’m not the least bit for defunding the police,” Freeman said in an interview with Selena Hill of Black Enterprise.

“Police work is, aside from all the negativity around it, it is very necessary for us to have them, and most of them are guys that are doing their job — they’re going about their day-to-day jobs. There are some policemen that ha …