June Hawkins is the Miami police officer who helped take down Griselda. She is performed by Juliana Aidén Martinez, a 2020 Yale drama faculty graduate and 2021 alumnus of Lena Waithe’s mentorship program to advance marginalized individuals within the movie trade.
In a 2017 episode of the podcast Regulation Enforcement Discuss, Hawkins herself shared extra nuance about her profession with what’s now generally known as the Miami-Dade Police Division. When requested about male chauvinism throughout the drive throughout her tenure from 1975 to 2004, she stated: “As quickly as she [male officers] realized that I used to be actually honest… and this wasn’t only a joke for me, then they turned my large brothers.”
Within the present, Hawkins is simply as underrated as Blanco. Her suspicions are dismissed, her experiences go unread and her relationship together with her son suffers. In actual life, Hawkins described herself on Regulation Enforcement Discuss as a “robust outdated chick” with an iron abdomen. Regardless of the numerous horrific issues she has witnessed throughout her 30-year profession, together with the dramatic detection of Blanco, Hawkins shared on the podcast that she had seen the police footage of her personal grownup son, Eric Reynolds, who was shot within the line of responsibility ( he survived), was tougher than anything she went via.
“I have been to homicide scenes, horrible dying scenes involving youngsters, infants, unimaginable issues that we have all seen and skilled… However when it is your individual youngster… if you’re a mom, you are a mom first, I feel ,” Hawkins informed the host of the Regulation Enforcement Discuss.
