POP/ROCK - July 23, 1992

Returning the Fire: Rapper Ice-T used an appearance on Arsenio Hall’s syndicated TV show Tuesday night to return some of the fire he’s been getting over his song “Cop Killer.” He said politicians are blasting the song because he is black and it is an election year. “I am no cop killer. I’d be in jail. But I can put myself into the body (of one) the same way Arnold Schwarzenegger can put himself into ‘The Terminator’ and kill 15 cops,” Ice-T said to cheers from the audience. Ice-T’s appearance prompted several threatening telephone calls to Hall’s office at Paramount Studios.