FOP to ‘SNL’: Be Nice to the BPD

10/17/18

By Brandon Weigel, Baltimore Fishbowl

Eleven people were shot in the City of Baltimore yesterday, but outgoing police union president Lt. Gene Ryan has more important things to tackle, like wagging his finger at “Saturday Night Live” and producer Lorne Michaels for having a sketch with three actresses in Baltimore Police Department uniforms.

Titled “Traffic Stop,” the sketch stars Baltimore-area native Ego Nwodim and Leslie Jones as two officers who pull over a driver, played by Seth Meyers. Nwodim’s character tells the man they asked him to get out of his car “because you fine as hell, that’s why,” which leads to a sing-along of Kanye West’s “Gold Digger,” cunnilingus puns about “going downtown” and a TV sitcom title card for the “Thirsty Cops.”

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