SVU's New Chief Is Out in Full Force Details
Fans were eagerly awaiting a new chief on 'Law and Order: SVU.’ Here's everything you want to know about Chief Christian Garland.
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Her be offering came as a situation of Chief Dodds' resignation, following the mess that preceded prosecuting Harvey Weinstein stand-in, Sir Toby Moore. "Feathers were ruffled," Dodds explains to Benson over a beer.
So who is Law and Order: SVU's new chief? Keep reading to find out.
Who is the new deputy chief on Law and Order: SVU?
In the aftermath of Chief Dodds' tragic demotion to visitors cop, many fans were left questioning who the Special Victims Unit would welcome as its alternative chief. They didn't have to wait long. In "Down Low in Hell's Kitchen," the season's 3rd episode, we met new deputy chief Christian Garland.
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Garland is performed by means of Canadian actor Demore Barnes and could have a ordinary function at the Thursday-evening program. As soon as we meet Chief Garland, he briefly establishes himself as good, analytical and truthful relating to the cases he supervises.
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Fans might remember the fact that a identical case gripped the country's headlines in January 2019 when Empire famous person Jussie Smollett reported to the Chicago police that two men had attacked him, tying a rope around his neck while calling him racist and homophobic slurs. When the incident was once printed to be a hoax, Smollett was himself arrested and indicted, even though the fees had been ultimately (and controversially) dropped.
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In "Down Low in Hell's Kitchen," the SVU group is alerted to a string of violent assaults in opposition to black homosexual men leaving gay bars in the Hell's Kitchen community. The downside is that the victims don't seem to be willing to document the crimes since, as Detective Tutuola astutely observes, "they're on the low."
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This all adjustments when a well-known musician called Mathis Brooks is attacked and is of the same opinion to publicly discuss concerning the incident. However, there are a lot of holes in his story and it turns into clear that Mathis has staged the come upon.
While the workforce is visibly annoyed via Mathis' lying, with Benson even exclaiming that Mathis has "poisoned the well" for real sufferers, she also makes it transparent that "false reporting is extremely rare." "We keep this in the news, and survivors are going to be afraid that they won't be believed," she goes on to mention.
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Chief Christian Garland ends up going undercover.
Luckily, new deputy chief Garland steps in and gives himself as much as cross undercover as a patron of the gay bars where the attacker is mentioned to hang out. It's with Garland's calm and picked up undercover work that the crew is in a position to nab their suspect red-handed and get him at the back of bars.
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Fans loved seeing Demore Barnes in his latest phase as deputy chief Christian Garland. Twitter is excited to see him in the ordinary function. "How pleased was I to see Hannibal and American Gods alum Demore Barnes in my OTHER favorite show, SVU," one fan wrote.
"Just finished watching on west coast," wrote another. "Chief Garland is a keeper! All around outstanding episode... writing, acting, EVERYTHING."
For his section, the actor has been excited for this new role. He dropped hints that he can be at the show back in September, when he tweeted, "Saved you a hot seat. Excited for you to see what I've been up to on #LawAndOrderSVU."
Watch new episodes of Law & Order: SVU Thursdays at 10 p.m. on NBC.
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