Show Me The Body share cop-baiting ‘Chrome Exposed’ video

New York noise crew Show Me The Body have shared a new video for ‘Chrome Exposed’, from their debut album ‘Body War’.

The grainy clip splices together footage of the band performing with various shots of New York police breaking laws and acting generally ‘a bit out of order’. It comes at the end of a week that’s seen police conduct in America under high scrutiny than ever before, following the deaths of two young black men at the hands of armed police. Though the band confirm that its release this week is purely coincidental, they’re as vocal as ever about the state of law and order in their home country.

“This video was finished and set to be released this week a month ago. Its release was not meant to coincide with the atrocities committed against Alton Sterling and Philando Castile,” the band confirmed in a statement. “The proliferation of cell phone footage documenting black and brown death has the potential to normalize the horrific violence committed against those communities. It is numbing and reinforces roles of those ‘fit’ to be killed and those ‘justified’ to do the killing. It is an American myth that police are present to protect people. Instead they protect social control and private property. Peaceful protests conducted in collaboration with victims’ families are often belittled and demonized within the media due to militarized and racist police tactics, thus reinforcing the American police officer’s license to kill black and brown bodies as long as they wear the badge. It is not our intent to perpetuate or normalize depictions of violent racism, but to hold accountable the men and women who perpetuate it, and question the untouchability of American police.”

Watch the ‘Chrome Exposed’ video below, and listen to ‘Body War’ here.

Catch up with our three day exposé on the madness of Show Me The Body’s debut UK shows.