tw: racism, politce brutality en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cop_Killer_(song) Ice-T is not the first artist to put a cop killer theme in United States popular culture. This theme has been the subject of countless cinematic and literary works, and has appeared many times before in popular music. During the Great Depression, for example, people celebrated Pretty Boy Floyd and his exploits, which included murdering law enforcement personnel. Similarly, the highly respected fiddler Tommy Jarrell wrote and sang Policeman, which begins, Policeman come and I didnt want to go this morning, so I shot him in the head with my 44. But perhaps the best-known case is Eric Claptons cover version of Bob Marley and the Wailers I Shot the Sheriff, which reached the top of the U.S. music charts in the mid-1970s (a feat not approached by Ice-T). I Shot the Sheriff, though, never suffered the sort of moral and political attacks that Cop Killer did. How do we account for this difference?[12]
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