Ice-T and Body Count didn’t shut up, either. After the original version of the album was pulled from shelves, the band distributed free singles of Cop Killer at shows. Meanwhile, the song that took Cop Killer’s place on the revised album probably didn’t make detractors any happier. Settling scores with everyone from Bush to the town of Columbus, Georgia, a retaliatory rant brazenly titled Freedom Of Speech announced, 'We ain’t the problems, we ain’t the villains, / It’s the suckers deprivin’ the truth from our children.'
Talking to Kerrang! about Cop Killer’s legacy and the irony that he is probably best known for playing Sgt. Fin Tutuola in Law & Order: Special Victim’s Unit, Ice maintained, “When I sing it in the show, I say, ‘I play one and they can still kiss my ass.’ But my attitude to cops hasn’t changed. I don’t hate cops, I hate brutal cops. I don’t hate people, I hate racist people.”