The actor noted that addressing Black Lives Matter gave SWAT an opportunity to be "conscious" and "woke" in a genre – the police procedural – that can, at times, be insensitive on the issue of race. "And so I called a meeting a few days later with Shawn Ryan, Aaron Thomas, the creator of SWAT, and some of the other writing staff, a couple of the actors, and we sat in my backyard and I said, 'We wear LAPD uniforms, we wear the uniforms that you see on the news and with all this divide, with all this division, this fear, with all the tensions that's in the streets between Black and blue between blue and the civilians,' and I said, 'It would be a shame for us to just get up on the screen and just run around ignorant, you know, just chasing generic bad guys.'" So I immediately called Shawn Ryan, our executive producer, showrunner, head writer, some executives from Sony and CBS and I basically said to them 'we have to address this'. I don't care what colour you are or where you're from, just humanity-wise you could see the wrong in that. "When all the social and racial injustices happened and literally while we were in break and we were all in lockdown here in Los Angeles and around the world, we were all in lockdown, the day that George Floyd lost his life obviously it was a sad day. "So it just was sadly a perfect storm with what happened with George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery and others. "The final episode kind of felt like a finale in itself and it was also a story that was already hinting at the riots of the next show," Moore explained to Digital Spy exclusively.
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