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Detective Blazer (Taran Killam) always gets his man in this darkly comedic parody of police body cam footage. The sketch satirizes police brutality and racial profiling as Blazer edits together footage from his partner's body cam, revealing a pattern of him exclusively targeting and punching Black suspects while ignoring white criminals. The sketch builds as the audience slowly realizes what's happening - Blazer is proudly showing off edited body cam footage that reveals his pattern of only arresting and physically assaulting Black suspects while literally pushing white criminals aside. The sketch ends with Blazer accidentally falling over a railing during one of his pursuits (an unplanned moment that was kept in the final broadcast).

The fall at the end where Taran Killam trips over the railing was a real accident that was incorporated into the final sketch. Killam discussed this on Seth Meyers' talk show.

Not again, Blazer!