YMMV / Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S15E11 "Amaro's One-Eighty"

• Harsher in Hindsight: The episode has an unarmed black teenager being shot, leading to a media frenzy surrounding the shooting and drawing attention to the police brutality. The detectives intentionally try to block the investigation or make sure it's only handled by friends who are willing to look the other way, explaining that the cop will be a victim of the media and made a pariah for police brutality, therefore the case should just be dropped. Despite this, the case leads to protests against police and a recording of the shooting leaks to the internet. Ultimately the case only gets as far as a grand jury who decide not to indict, and the cop is largely let off scot-free. The episode aired in January 2014, and in August of that same year, Michael Brown's shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, saw all of these events happen for real. The episode feels incredibly bizarre, especially with the Internal Affairs agents inspecting the case being treated as bullies and SVU being framed as heroes for trying to bury details given the uncooperative response of the Ferguson and St. Louis police departments in the shooting's aftermath.