Sonny & The Sunsets have a new politically-charged song, "White Cops on Trial," streaming now on Noisey. The track appears on the band's upcoming album, Moods Baby Moods, which comes out 5/27 and is available for pre-order now here.
Stream "White Cops on Trial" below or head over to Noisey.
When asked to elaborate on the song's inspiration, Sonny Smith states:
"We’ve all been watching acquittal after acquittal of police officers for the killings of black and brown people. Here in SF the Frisco 5 are on hunger strike outside SFPD (Mission station), calling for resignation of the SF police Chief Suhr over the police assasinations of Alex Nieto, Mario Woods, Amilcar Perez-Lopez and Louis Gongora. There’s been a lot of positive resistance to the powers that be in this city, and our old racist system, so this song just came out of taking interest in what’s happening now."