The Ledger
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Ice Cube: LAPD's war on gangs targeted all Black and Brown youth
“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, …”
Ice Cube: Cameras expose how US law enforcement preys on citizens
“Now you look up and people realize that it's a, it's, it is an epidemic because we have camera phones body cams, dash cams, all these things are letting people know the things that we've been knowing for hundreds of years in this country that You know, the law…”
Ice Cube: N.W.A shifted public perception to challenge police testimony
“Before NWA, if a cop testified against you, everybody believed him. You were going to jail. Straight up. After NWA, people started to say is this true? Is this true?”
Ice Cube confronted Priority Records' head with a baseball bat
“My favorite part, though, is Is going in Brian Turner's office with the bat. Yeah. You know, that brings back memories right there. Yeah, I was on one. I was on one. For real. But we cool now. We cool now. You know, he paid me my money too.”