In the Spirit of Sankofa,
Ice-T Looks Back at ‘Cop Killer,’ 25 Years Later: ‘We’re Still Dealing With the Same Bulls***’
A quarter-century after rapper-actor Ice-T stirred up controversy with his metal band Body Count’s signature song, “Cop Killer,” police brutality is in the public eye more than ever. Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Keith Scott, Alton Sterling, and Philando Castile are just a few of the more publicized cases, but in 2016 alone more than 250 black people were killed by police officers in America, according to the Guardian; and 64 cops have also been killed in the line of duty — 25 of them murdered in “ambush-style shootings,” reports NPR ...
https://www.yahoo.com/music/ice-t-l...ll-dealing-with-the-same-bulls-233613996.html
Body Count photo courtesy of Century Media Records
Jon Wiederhorn
Writer
Yahoo MusicMarch 28, 2017
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Ice-T Looks Back at ‘Cop Killer,’ 25 Years Later: ‘We’re Still Dealing With the Same Bulls***’
A quarter-century after rapper-actor Ice-T stirred up controversy with his metal band Body Count’s signature song, “Cop Killer,” police brutality is in the public eye more than ever. Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Keith Scott, Alton Sterling, and Philando Castile are just a few of the more publicized cases, but in 2016 alone more than 250 black people were killed by police officers in America, according to the Guardian; and 64 cops have also been killed in the line of duty — 25 of them murdered in “ambush-style shootings,” reports NPR ...
https://www.yahoo.com/music/ice-t-l...ll-dealing-with-the-same-bulls-233613996.html
Body Count photo courtesy of Century Media Records
Jon Wiederhorn
Writer
Yahoo MusicMarch 28, 2017
...