Ice Cube: LAPD's war on gangs targeted all Black and Brown youth
Ice Cube · a16z Podcast | Straight Outta Compton, The Interview (including Ice Cube and Ben Horowitz) · Jan 2, 2019 · at 3:52
Rapper and N.W.A member Ice Cube reflects on LAPD Chief Daryl Gates' 1980s policing tactics that inspired N.W.A's protest anthem 'Fuck tha Police'.
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“You know, we was dealing with Daryl Gates, who was the chief of police in Los Angeles at the time, and he had declared a war on gangs. Now, to most law-abiding citizens, a war on gangs sound pretty good, but if they think every black teenager They run across, or brown teenager they run across, is a gangbanger. That means it's a war on black young teenagers and brown young teenagers.”
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