So NBC’s “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” is going back to the drawing board for its next season as television continues to reckon with its history of glorifying police officers and their tactics, a practice many have dubbed “copaganda.”
The actor also spoke candidly about his own interactions with the police and reflected on the recent reckoning for racial justice, which he described as “Black America’s Me Too movement.”
The typically lighthearted sitcom, which also stars Andy Samberg and Andre Braugher, has intermittently addressed racism and the realities of policing, most notably in the 2017 episode “Moo Moo,” in which Crews’ character is harassed by a white police officer during a stop and frisk.
“I’m really disappointed in how many of y’all are so uncritical of seeing Brooklyn Nine-Nine for what it is: an interracial police buddy comedy meant to make white Black cops seem like your friendly neighborhood jokesters ( to culturally gentrify ‘Brooklyn’ as sitcom fodder),” he wrote at the time.
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