Angry cops cancel Springsteen escort over song

New York police showed rocker Bruce Springsteen who the real “Boss” was after he angered them with a song about a controversial shooting, it emerged today.

Thu, 09 Oct, 2003 - 15:05

New York police showed rocker Bruce Springsteen who the real “Boss” was after he angered them with a song about a controversial shooting, it emerged today.

Top officers were so incensed by the song “American Skin (41 shots)” that they cancelled Springsteen’s police escort out of Shea stadium.

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