1. Police Sketch: Ice-T

According to the Season 11 episode "Disabled", Tutuola, while still in the police academy, was forced by circumstances to place his maternal grandfather, whom he credits for raising him, in a nursing home. His grandfather later died as a result of abuse from the staff. Tutuola later describes institutionalizing his grandfather as "the worst decision [he] ever made"; in his grief, rage, and guilt, he started fights with fellow officers "for the hell of it" and was almost kicked off the force until an academy instructor intervened and helped him salvage his career.

1. Police Sketch: Ice-T

Tutuola and Stabler mend their relationship somewhat, however. While they are never friendly, they do respect each other, and sympathize with each other over the dual burdens they both face from being police officers and fathers. When pedophile Jake Berlin (Tom Noonan) posts a picture of Stabler's daughter on his website, Stabler beats him up, but Tutuola covers for him and praises him for showing restraint; he says that, had Berlin posted pictures of his child, he would have killed him.[14] Years later, when Stabler, who quit SVU in 2011, returns to New York after spending 10 years in Italy, Tutuola is the first person he calls.[15]

Ice-T co-founded the heavy metal band Body Count, which he introduced on his 1991 rap album O.G. Original Gangster, on the track titled "Body Count". The band released its self-titled debut album in 1992. Ice-T encountered controversy over his track "Cop Killer", the lyrics of which discussed killing police officers. He asked to be released from his contract with Warner Bros. Records, and his next solo album, Home Invasion, was released later in February 1993 through Priority Records. Body Count's next album, Born Dead, was released in 1994, and Ice-T released two more albums in the late 1990s.

Controversy later surrounded Body Count over its song "Cop Killer". The rock song was intended to speak from the viewpoint of a criminal getting revenge on racist, brutal cops. Ice-T's rock song infuriated government officials, the National Rifle Association, and various police advocacy groups.[2][24] Consequently, Time Warner Music refused to release Ice-T's upcoming album Home Invasion because of the controversy surrounding "Cop Killer". Ice-T suggested that the furor over the song was an overreaction, telling journalist Chuck Philips "...they've done movies about nurse killers and teacher killers and student killers. Arnold Schwarzenegger blew away dozens of cops as the Terminator. But I don't hear anybody complaining about that". In the same interview, Ice-T suggested to Philips that the misunderstanding of Cop Killer, the misclassification of it as a rap song (not a rock song), and the attempts to censor it had racial overtones: "The Supreme Court says it's OK for a white man to burn a cross in public. But nobody wants a black man to write a record about a cop killer".[24]

In 1991, he embarked on a serious acting career, portraying police detective Scotty Appleton in Mario Van Peebles' action thriller New Jack City, gang leader Odessa (alongside Denzel Washington and John Lithgow) in Ricochet (1991), gang leader King James in Trespass (1992), followed by a notable lead role performance in Surviving the Game (1994), in addition to many supporting roles, such as J-Bone in Johnny Mnemonic (1995), and the marsupial mutant T-Saint in Tank Girl (1995). He was also interviewed in the Brent Owens documentary Pimps Up, Ho's Down,[42] in which he claims to have had an extensive pimping background before getting into rap. He is quoted as saying "once you max something out, it ain't no fun no more. I couldn't really get no farther." He goes on to explain his pimping experience gave him the ability to get into new businesses. "I can't act, I really can't act, I ain't no rapper, it's all game. I'm just working these niggas." Later he raps at the Players Ball.

The Combined Law Association of Texas soon initiated a boycott on Time Warner, the parent company of Sire Records (who released the album), and a wave of protest included police organisations, members of Congress, President George Bush, and even controversial Iran-Contra figure Oliver North who somehow found a way to compare the song to Charles Manson.

"Cop Killer" was a protest record just like a protest record from the 60s. It was meant to say we are done with police brutality and I think it stands today that people are done with it but is also a reminder that power is easily corruptible.

Barnes has received the endorsement of five national groups that have called for defunding the police, which became a rallying cry among many activists after the death of George Floyd at the hands of police officers in Minneapolis in May 2020.

The call to "defund the police" has been the subject of intense debate. Some proponents argued it meant shifting resources from police agencies to social services, while others saw it more strictly as reducing funding or even abolishing the police.

In November, Barnes was a speaker at a major meeting of the Center for Popular Democracy, which is a supporter of defundpolice.org. The center tweeted last year, "Defund police. Defund police states. Defund militarized occupation. Defund state-sanctioned violence."

Barnes has even posted a couple of tweets that seem to suggest he has supported the movement, such as his July 10, 2020 post: "Defunding the police only dreams of being as radical as a Donald Trump pardon."

"We need to invest more in neighborhood services and programming for our residents, for our communities on the front end," Barnes told PBS Wisconsin in 2020. "Where will that money come from? Well, it can come from over-bloated budgets in police departments, you know?"

But in his statement, the former two-term legislator said he is not supportive of the liberal drive to defund police. His past statements to the media have left it unclear whether he supported the cause.

He went on to say in the statement that he has taken part in the swearing-in ceremonies for law enforcement officers. He said he favored a policy of spending money to prevent crime and providing police with the resources needed "to keep us safe."

HIs campaign also noted that each of the five groups had endorsed moderate Democrats who did not support either defunding police or abolishing ICE. Three of them, for instance, backed President Joe Biden in the 2020 election.

A spokesman for one of the groups, the Center for Popular Democracy, said it was aware that Barnes did not support defunding police when it endorsed him last year. The group also supported him in his 2018 race for lieutenant governor.

A Pew Research Survey found late last year that the share of adults who want increased spending on their local police currently stands at 47% compared to 31% in June 2020. Only 15% of respondents said they wanted to cut financial support for police.

Just last week, a Politico/Morning Consult poll found that 68% of voters think giving more money to police would lower crime rates. Among Democrats, the figure had jumped from 46% to 59% in the past year.

Nelson said he doesn't want to eradicate ICE but he said reforms need to be enacted to make sure it is not "acting recklessly or without any oversight." As for his thoughts on defunding police, Nelson was more direct:

In his book The Ice Opinion, Ice-T compared the contents of this song to the film Unforgiven, which came out in the same year. Both are about somebody getting revenge against the police force for the unjust murder of his black friend. And yet one of them was condemned by the President, and the other won four Academy Awards.

The game's story is a prequel to the events of Def Jam Vendetta. However, the game uses many of the same situations and characters from Fight for NY, which is the third game in the series, chronologically. You still play a nameless up-and-coming gangsta brought into the world of underground street fighting after rescuing one of the game's personalities from trouble with the police. However, instead of D-Mob being freed from police custody, like in Fight for NY, it is tattoo artist Manny who is saved from corrupt police officers. Manny takes you to O.G., your "mentor", who instructs you in how to fight to gain control of (take over) the five boroughs of New York City. Eventually, O.G. is murdered by the hands of Crow, leaving D-Mob to step in and use you as his number one fighter. Ultimately, it is revealed that D-Mob was using you to take over the five boroughs, controlling New York City's underground, and that he was going to leave you to take the fall, leading police to your exact whereabouts. After defeating D-Mob in the story's final battle, a one-on-one fight at the 125th Street Station, you decide to leave the underground fight scene for good. D-Mob, eventually recovers from the fight and, with nobody in New York to stop him, builds his empire that is seen in Vendetta.

Character creation is still the same as Fight for NY. Just like in the original, only male characters can be created. You still create your character using the same type of police sketch-artist system. A new addition is choosing your character's home town from one of the five boroughs of New York City. From there, the game flows similarly to Fight for NY, featuring many of the same fighting arenas and shops with which to upgrade your character's clothing, jewelry, hair, and fighting moves.

Known for its grit and commitment to portraying real-life stories, issues, and dialogue, the ensemble cast of police officers and detectives on NYPD Blue kept fans captive (in a good way) for more than a decade. Now, almost 20 years after the final season aired, fans of police and procedural dramas still come back to rewatch the show that set the precedent for the genre. 041b061a72