SAGINAW TWP, MI -- Rapper-turned-actor Ice-T is cool with cops, according to a city police officer who encountered him at Macy's in Saginaw Township over the weekend.

Saginaw Police Detective Sgt. Reggie Williams II said that he was shopping Saturday at the Fashion Square Mall in Saginaw Township when he looked over and saw someone who looked very similar to Ice-T.

And then Williams heard the distinguished voice that he heard on many rap CDs he'd often listen to as a teen.

"I didn't think it was him until he started talking," Williams said. "I saw his wife and his entourage."

Williams took the opportunity to ask for a photo with the New Jack City movie star, but first, he said he told Ice-T that he was a police officer.

"He said, 'I'm cool with cops, man.'"

Williams, who has been offered the police chief job in Buena Vista Township, said he didn't ask Ice-T why he was in Michigan, let alone Saginaw, but did overhear him tell someone else he was just passing through.

Ice-T attended the 30th Annual Labor Day Jazz Weekend at Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island over the Labor Day weekend. The visit to the island was also for a road trip event called Cannonball Run 2017.