Legendary genre-defying pioneers Fishbone have dropped a powerful new video for ‘Secret Police’, a track from their acclaimed new album ‘Stockholm Syndrome’. The video is a visual gut-punch—unapologetically urgent, unflinchingly raw—and dares to ask the uncomfortable question: Why in present day USA is a brown person treated differently than a white person when doing the exact same thing?
When asked about ‘Secret Police’ Fishbone’s Chris Dowd shares: “I can’t pinpoint the actual moment the creation of ‘Secret Police’ began. The protestors being run over in Charlottesville, Breonna Taylor, a 4-year-old little girl face down in water, dead, trying to cross the U.S. border. During this ongoing existential/literal crisis, Kyle Rittenhouse on camera shot 3 protesters fatally, ending two human lives in the process, and I knew he was going to walk. There is no jury of your peers when there is no jury that would convict him based on fact, not bias. At that tipping point, ‘Secret Police’ was born and with the current brutally from ICE and DHS it’s all relevant as ever. From the hubris of racism and the pillar of the entitled.”
A searing indictment of ICE brutality, white supremacy, and law enforcement double standards, ‘Secret Police’ is more than a protest song—it’s a wake-up call. In an era where injustice is often normalized through repetition, Fishbone’s new visual serves as an alarm meant to shake audiences out of passive consumption.
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