This was an English speaking American made movie. I remember the scene pretty well. It involved a drug deal in an apartment building. There were 3 undercover cops, 2 male, 1 female. The drug dealer has a Rottweiler on a chain. The undercover cop says something along the lines of the dog is scaring his girl, the drug dealer punches the dog, says something about teaching the dog respect. Soon after it turns into a shootout, one of the men dies, the other man is shot, I believe in the leg. The woman pursues the drug dealer and winds up getting killed outside of the building where the injured cop finds her. That’s all I remember.
“Assault on Precinct 13” (2005)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0398712/
The film starts exactly as you described. Ethan Hawke plays the undercover cop.
You can watch the scene in question on YouTube here (hopefully they don’t block it due to copyrights claims):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5gdbqqsCFk
Actor Titus Welliver plays the guy who has the rottweiler.
Thank you. I was fairly certain it had Ethan Hawke, but when I looked through his filmography, nothing jumped at me as having this scene. I appreciate you, friend.
You are most welcome.
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