Ice-T quickly hopped on Twitter on Wednesday to celebrate the release of Bill Cosby from prison after his sexual assault conviction was overturned.
"Oh s**t Bill Cosby might be touching back down on the bricks…Hot Boy Summer!" he wrote in a now-deleted tweet.
Twitter users immediately lambasted the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit actor, who has been on the show since 2000 and portrays a decorated NYPD sergeant that investigates sex crimes.
I hope to god I’m just ignorant and don’t know what this means but Please tell me that after 20+ seasons on SVU that you aren’t showing support for a predator…
— storiesinthedust????✨ (@parkerroberts) June 30, 2021
ICE T SUPPORTING BILL FUCKING COSBY AFTER 20+ YEARS ON SVU AND DOING INTERVIEWS ABOUT HOW A LOT OF THE EPISODES TOUCHED HIM……..@nbc
— Almost Pokémon Master (@URSure816) June 30, 2021
Today bout to be a LONG day. Someone call Olivia Benson https://t.co/FZPqtHSL0X
— Vania (@idealv_) June 30, 2021
mariska would never https://t.co/BsMG4kVsjI
— ???????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????? ???????????????????????????? (@nnormally_) June 30, 2021
Aside from Ice-T showing support for Cosby's release, rapper Lil Duval also joined in after he called the exoneration a "win."
Bill Cosby about to be free! City boy win summer 2021! pic.twitter.com/UR0oUPzopH
— lil duval (@lilduval) June 30, 2021
This ain’t the one bruh pic.twitter.com/mZKXwxYhPc
— ₿itcoin ₿enito (@Dumb__Username) June 30, 2021
— goose fan account (@picklescoffee) June 30, 2021
Cosby's sexual assault allegations made headlines in 2017 during a high-profile trial where he faced charges for drugging and sexually assaulting former Temple University women's basketball official Andrea Constand.
Spanning from the 1960s to 2008, 60 women have accused the now 83-year-old of sexual assault, helping to ignite the #MeToo movement for sexual assault survivors, Vox reported.
