Question

This character sticks a banana in the exhaust pipe of a cop car that follows him to his hotel, and brings those police escorts to a strip club where they foil a robbery. Drugs smuggled in coffee grounds by Victor Maitland are exposed by this character after leaving his job in Detroit, and he works with cops played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt and (*) Judge Reinhold in a 2024 sequel titled for him. Swedish teen Daniel Malmedahl remixed a song titled for this character originally composed by Harold Faltermeyer. (10[1])In the music video for that song titled for this character, a bluish animal that wears aviator goggles repeats the words “ring ding ding ding”. For 10 points, Eddie Murphy plays what protagonist of the Beverly Hills Cop franchise (10[2])who also titles (10[1])a song by Crazy Frog? ■END■

ANSWER: Axel Foley [accept either underlined name; or Axel F; or Detective Alexander James “Axel” Foley; accept Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F]
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