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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit · Season 1, Episode 15

Fin, Rollins and others in “Unfinished Business”

It used to be so simple. Just take down the bad guy. Now the lines are blurred. Half the city are looking at us like we're the bad guys.

It was an impossible summer. Things are gonna calm down.

I don't see that happening. The way the NYPD handled those demonstrators...

We were under attack. What do you want us to do, sit there and take it?

You're supposed to de-escalate. Assess the situation, be aware of our biases. We're not supposed to overreact.

You mean like shoot a man in front of his son?

Fin...

Look, growing up in the 'hood, the way the cops treated us, I never trusted 'em. That's why I joined the force, to make a change. Then I worked my way over to SVU because there's no gray area when you're taking down rapists and pedophiles. The last thing I wanted to be is another trigger-happy cop who kills a Black man. And here I am.

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