Walter Tapus

Walter Tapus emerges as the armed robbery suspect whose brutal 17-year-old encounter with cop Jack Sloane ignites a firestorm of buried scandal. Pursued relentlessly through warehouse fences and storage lots, Tapus fights back fiercely during cuffing—snapping Sloane's hand and nose—before Sloane allegedly retaliates with repeated kicks that fracture his leg. Tapus sues the city for $5 million, his legal strike lingering as a ticking vulnerability that now threatens Sloane's White House heroism and forces C.J. into preemptive disclosure maneuvers amid post-SOTU frenzy.