They wanted was damn autographs for their daughters and sons.”
They corralled us, arrested us all, and all “We saw the whole Detroit police department rush the stage. We were like, ‘Tonight we're going to do that song.’” He continued: Perform 'Fuck tha Police' on tour] until we got mad at the promoter. Ice Cube told a British talk show host in 2014: "We agreed to [not
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were chased off of the stage and arrested.Īccording to the Detroit Free Press, N.W.A were arrested, but not the way that it was portrayed in the film:
In real life, members of the group did get harassed by cops In the movie, it happens outside a recording studio in Torrance,Ĭalifornia where they are recording their first album, Straight OuttaĬompton. However, this incident did not inspire the concept for their song "Fuck tha Police.": According to a source for The Guardian, this actually did happen. are harassed by LAPD officers while standing outside of their recording studio. There is a scene where the members of N.W.A. We were living in the middle of dope dealing, gangbanging, policeīrutality, fucking Reaganomics, and there was nowhere to escape.Īs for some of the encounters with police in the movie, let's break down a few of them: In a Rolling Stone Interview, N.W.A member Ice Cube is quoted: It also said the department's managementĬonsistently discouraged citizen complaints against officers and Minority officers are often targets of racial slurs within the policeĭepartment, the report said. offices are encouraged to command and confront, not to Guidelines of the department regarding force."
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Whether the police brutality/harassment scenes in the movie were embellished for creative licensing or not, the fact remains that police corruption, racism and brutality ran rampant in predominantly African American communities such as Compton:Ī significant number who "repetitively useĮxcessive force against the public and persistently ignore the written Again, I'm not asking whether the film is accurate to life, I am only asking whether it is accurate to NWA's version of events. I guess if there is one scene I am most interested in, it is the concert in Michigan where NWA all get chased off stage and arrested after performing "Fuck The Police" on stage after being ordered not to by the local police. Dre and Ice Cube, though they are not given writing credit, so I wonder whether it can be considered as their telling of the story in movie form.) I am only asking here whether the movie matches NWA's version(s) of events, or whether there is "creative license" at play. Please note, I am not asking whether the claims of NWA regarding police encounters are true, or whether the scenes in the film are accurate to life. can be cited from NWA members that match the events in the film?
How closely do these scenes in the film match the actual claims of NWA and others close to them? What if any interviews, etc. Sometimes Hollywood productions embellish stories for emotional effect, so I wonder: Conflict between NWA, the Compton community and the police was a constant undercurrent in the film. I recently saw the film Straight Outta Compton (2015) and found the scenes of police encounters disturbing.
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