'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' Season 8 Episodes Scrapped Following Black Lives Matter Protests

“Brooklyn Nine-Nine” is reportedly scrapping four of its upcoming episodes for Season 8 after George Floyd’s death and the Black Lives Matter protests.

Amid the now-global racial protests, Dan Goor and Michael Schur’s comedy series “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” has decided to change its storyline for some episodes of its eighth season.

"Our show-runner Dan Goor, they had four episodes all ready to go and they just threw them in the trash," series star and comedian Terry Crews, 51, shared in an interview with Access Daily. "We have to start over. Right now we don't know which direction it’s going to go in."

After the NBC show wrapped its seventh season in April, the cast and crew of “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” sat down and had discussions about racism as well as how the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement will affect the future of the show.

“We’ve had a lot of somber talks about it and deep conversations and we hope through this we’re going to make something that will be truly groundbreaking this year,” Crews shared. “We have an opportunity here, and we plan to use it in the best way possible.”

“Brooklyn Nine-Nine” has been in the spotlight since Floyd's killing at the hands of Minneapolis police as the comedy show follows the lives of blundering officers and a team of detectives in Brooklyn, New York. According to CBR, the show, despite being centered on the police force, has not shied away from the mistreatment of the Black community by law enforcement.

“Brooklyn Nine-Nine” Season 4’s “Moo Moo” saw Sergeant Terry Jeffords (Crews) being racially profiled by a white police officer in his own neighborhood.

Showrunner and co-creator Goor previously penned a statement on Twitter when the whole cast of the series made a $100,000 donation to the National Bail Fund Network. In his social media post, Goor stated that the “cast and showrunner of ‘Brooklyn 99’ condemn the murder of George Floyd and support the many people who are protesting police brutality nationwide.”

Meanwhile, Crews sees the current Black Lives Matter movement as a chance for the world to come together and push for significant change in society.

“This is an opportunity right now for us all to unite and get together and understand what this is and that we have to battle this together.”