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As Davidson approached Ronald Ray Howard’s car, Howard shot him in the neck with a 9-millimeter pistol.Howard was arrested not long after he fled the scene. He confessed to the crime soon after. Milt Ahlerich, assistant director of the FBI’s office of public affairs, accused NWA and Priority Records of encouraging violence and disrespect for law enforcement. He noted that 78 officers had been killed in the line of duty in 1988.No doubt, “Fuck Tha Police” was provocative. In their lyrics, the members of N.W.A fantasize about retaliation.On any motherfucker in a blue uniformAnd when I’m finished, it’s gonna be a bloodbathN.W.
Rebellious teenagers and hip-hop heads weren’t the only people paying attention. Local police departments faxed the lyrics to “Fuck tha Police” from city to city. For decades, members of minority communities had argued that police brutality was under-reported. The Rodney King video was evidence that they were right.
But Ice-T was also a fan of thrash metal, and in 1990 he formed a metal band with his high school friend Ernie C. Ice sang and wrote the lyrics, which covered the same street-level subjects he rapped about. They called the band Body Count. Their first album, released in March 1992, featured the songs “KKK Bitch,” “Evil Dick,” and “Momma’s Gotta Die Tonight.
The officer got the lyrics from “Cop Killer” printed in his police union’s newsletter, next to a call for a boycott of Time Warner products. “If we want this pulled from the record stores,” it read, “we’re going to have to make it happen ourselves.”This jeopardizes all of Time Warner’s upcoming business in getting cable franchises all over the country. And then nationwide, police unions begin to join with Texas, because all of them are sort of, like, on the defense after the L.A.
Sixty members of Congress signed a letter to Time Warner calling “Cop Killer” “vile” and “despicable.” And then Vice President Dan Quayle got involved.Quayle was speaking at a convention of police officers who were involved in an anti-drug program.I am sure you’re all familiar by now with Ice-T’s record, distributed by Time Warner, which says that it’s OK to kill cops. Time Warner’s defense is that this is free speech, and it is constitutional.
Following Heston, Time Warner board members heard from two officers who’d been shot in the face and disfigured.Executives were bombarded with hate mail and received threatening phone calls.Eventually, Ice-T caved. In his memoir, he wrote that Time Warner never pressured him to make a decision. He said he “felt awful” for the corporation, and he realized the controversy wasn’t going away.
Throughout the battle over “Cop Killer,” no one could point to a single incident in which rappers had directly incited violent behavior.Here’s Howard’s defense attorney, Allen Tanner.The prosecutor in the case, whose name was Bobby Bell, called me one day when I was in Houston and said, “We found some recordings that were in the vehicle that Ronald Howard was in. And I think you’d be really interested in hearing them.” And so I said, “OK.
“There’s no doubt about it: Ronald Howard is going to be convicted of capital murder,” he told the jury.The only part of the trial that was truly contested was the penalty phase: Would Howard get a life sentence, or lethal injection? He then played a series of gangsta rap songs for the jury. The judge wore earplugs while the music played.They all had a lyric book and they were able to follow through with the words as to each song. And we played like 15 songs. From Tupac and from the Geto Boys. And I think maybe N.W.A and maybe Gangsta N-I-P, I remember. But the jurors heard all the lyrics. We blasted the courtroom. It was loud. They heard everything.
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