Brooklyn Nine-Nine to address police brutality in new series

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>US comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine will address police brutality in a new storyline&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Co-creator Dan Goor said the show’s writers would tackle the topic in the upcoming eighth season but stressed they would handle it with care&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Speaking to Variety&comma; he said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We want to make sure we get it right&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"CFNDV20FEuj" data-captioned layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600"><button overflow type&equals;"button">See more<&sol;button><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Andre Braugher&comma; who stars as precinct captain Raymond Holt&comma; said it was important the show addressed the subject&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He told the magazine&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Brooklyn Nine-Nine has to commit itself&comma; as a comedy&comma; to telling the story of how these things happen&comma; and what’s possible to deal with them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I don’t have any easy answers&comma; nor do I have a window into the mind bank of this writing staff&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Can you tell the same story&quest; Can anyone in America maintain any kind of innocence about what police departments are capable of&quest;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads1--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Braugher&comma; who is African-American&comma; said he had reassessed his portrayal of the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;heroic cop” figure on the show following protests prompted by the death of unarmed black man George Floyd in Minnesota&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said he had &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;no idea what season eight of Brooklyn Nine-Nine is going to be&comma; because everything’s changed”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Braugher added&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Can a comedy sustain the things that we’re trying to talk about&quest; I don’t know&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It could be a really groundbreaking season that we’re all going to be very&comma; very proud of&comma; or we’re going to fall flat on our face&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;But I think this is a staff&comma; a cast and a crew that’s willing to take it on and give it our best&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I think we have a damn good chance to tell the kinds of stories that heretofore have only been seen on grittier shows&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Brooklyn Nine-Nine&comma; which stars Andy Samberg and Braugher as New York police officers in Brooklyn’s fictional 99th Precinct&comma; was cancelled by Fox after season five&comma; but snapped up by NBC for further seasons&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In June&comma; one of its stars&comma; 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