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Police union criticises Ice-T
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 23 July 2010
American police union bosses have hit out at rapper come actor Ice-T for his Twitter response to a run in with New York officers earlier this week.
As previously reported, Ice-T was pulled over in New York on Tuesday after he was seen driving without a seatbelt. There were reports that police believed him to be driving on a suspended license, that they booked him, and that they temporarily banned him from driving.
Shortly after the incident, Ice-T took to the internet to deny the reports he’d been driving on a suspended license, and to criticise the conduct of the police who pulled him over.
Police union reps have seemingly taken offence to one tweet in particular, in which Ice said: “Some punk bitch rookie cop named Fisher #10026 made the arrest of his bullshit career today: Arresting the notorious Ice-T for no seatbelt”.
He added: “That [suspended licence claim] is some bullshit they made up… Lie. For the record, y license is not suspended. I don’t and never had a NYC licence. I have a valid NJ licence. It was all bullshit”.
While not commenting on the charges made, a spokesman for the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association say they believe the rap man has been “disrespectful” to their hard working members. Noting the rapper’s role in US police drama ‘Law & Order: Special Victims Unit’, the union’s President Patrick Lynch told the New York Post: “[Ice-T] may play a police officer on TV, but his disdain for law enforcement is well-documented. Real police officers enforce real laws that exist to keep everyone safe, even a disrespectful, former rap performer-turned-actor, whether he likes it or not”.
