LA police investigate song mocking dead black teen at ex-cop's party

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

http://news.yahoo.com/la-police-inve...092122735.html

LA police investigate song mocking dead black teen at ex-cop's party



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Reuters
By Michael Fleeman
14 hours ago
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A song poking fun at the killing of black teenager Michael Brown by a white policeman, performed at a retired officer's party, has prompted the Los Angeles Police Department to launch an internal investigation, its chief said on Tuesday.

"Michael Brown learned a lesson about a messin' with a badass policeman," goes the song, captured on video and posted on entertainment news website TMZ. It continues: "Michael looked like some old Swiss cheese" ... his brain "splattered on the floor."

The video is likely to fuel public anger over police killings of black men. About 200 people marched in New York on Tuesday, defying Mayor Bill de Blasio's call for protests to be suspended after two police officers were killed in their patrol car on Saturday in an apparent revenge attack.

Late on Tuesday an 18-year-old black man was shot and killed by police in a St. Louis suburb near where unarmed Brown was killed by in August. Police said the man had pointed a handgun at the officer who shot him.

Commenting on the song, Chief Charlie Beck said on Twitter: "Like many of you, I find it offensive & absurd. It does not reflect the values of the #LAPD."

"I have directed our Professional Standards Bureau to look into this & determine if any active department employees were involved."

An LAPD spokesman declined further comment.

The song, which changed the lyrics to "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown", a 1973 hit by American folk rock singer Jim Croce, was performed at a party organized by a retired LAPD officer at an Elks Lodge in the Los Angeles suburb Glendale on Dec. 15, local media reported.

A trustee for the lodge, in a statement to LA Weekly, apologized for the song, which he called inappropriate and said does not reflect the group's values.

A lawyer for the singer, identified as Gary Fishell, a former private investigator, is quoted by TMZ as saying: "He's a goofball who writes funny songs," adding that he had now realized the song was "off color and in poor taste."

(Editing by Eric M. Johnson and Robin Pomeroy)

Really?????? Was the party on the police department dime???
Was acting in very poooooooooor taste(IMHO), BUT a crime to be investigated??? I DON'T THINK SO--FFKK THEM ..

Folks, this is exactly what bamscum and Holder hoped to instill in us. A fear and a punishment philosophy that deprives us of our own freedoms and rights.

This is all designed to give the blacks very, very special rights!!! And comes from the hypocrites that scream about equality every chance they get..
The same asshats that set it up to let the muslims just waltz right on thru at airports while we get searched , probed , groped and violated!!!!
If a true reckoning ever comes and real justice is served I know of millions that are going to be in for a damn very rude awakening since they are stupid, clueless and totally devoid of any common sense or integrity at all.


Did these clueless shat heads ever hear of free speech and the right to be rude , crude or in poor taste????
Suddenly the new extra protected classes of gays, muslims , illegals and blacks are being unified against we that oppose such true injustice and socialism.

All the while the traitorous maggot is in Hawaii partying on our damn dime!!!
Letting his henchmen carry on his agenda. --Tyr

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Song investigation no less !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


What's next , investigating bed time prayers and notes to Santa.....

This the damn obama-nation the tyrant has been aiming for all along... -Tyr

[LongTermGuy]

`Exactly and well said^^^^



"performed at a `retired` officer's party"

... Investigate?????

Amazing.......

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

`Exactly and well said^^^^



"performed at a `retired` officer's party"

... Investigate?????

Amazing.......

YES, setting the new Obama induced standard-- Must kiss ass at every place every time!!!! Exceptions will not be tolerated....


I would have played number 10.
My favorite song on that album..
Lyrics are pure brilliance, pure ffing gold!!! --Tyr



The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down Lyrics

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Band - lyrics Last Waltz Other Album Songs
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1 Theme from the Last Waltz
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2 Up On Cripple Creek
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3 Who Do You Love?
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4 Helpless
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5 Stage Fright
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6 Coyote
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7 Dry Your Eyes
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8 It Makes No Difference
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9 Such a Night
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10 The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
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11 Mystery Train
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12 Mannish Boy
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13 Further on Up the Road
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14 The Shape I'm In
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15 Down South In New Orleans
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16 Ophelia
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17 Tura Lura Lural
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18 Caravan
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19 Life Is A Carnival
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20 Baby Let Me Follow You Down
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21 I Don't Believe You
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22 Forever Young
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23 I Shall Be Released
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24 The Well
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25 Evangeline
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26 Out of the Blue
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27 The Weight
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28 The Last Waltz Refrain

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"The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" is track #10 on the album Last Waltz. It was written by Robertson, Robbie.

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Virgil Caine is my name and I drove on the Danville train
'Til Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again.
In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive.
By May the 10th, Richmond had fell.
It's a time I remember, oh so well.

The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringing,
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singing
They went, "Na,na,na.na,
Na na na na na na na na na.''

Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she called to me,
"Virgil, quick, come see, there goes Robert E.Lee!"
Now I don't mind I'm choppin' wood, and I don't care if the money's no good.
You take what you need and leave the rest,
But they should never have taken the very best.

The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringing,
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singing.
They went, "Na,na,na na
'Na,na,na.na na na na na na..'

Like my father before me, I will work the land,
And like my brother before me, I took a rebel stand.
He was just eighteen, proud and brave,
but a Yankee laid him in his grave.
I swear by the blood below my feet
You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat

The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringing,
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singing
They went, "Na, na, na na ... "

The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringing.
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singing.
They went, "Na, na, na na ..."

Songwriters
ROBERTSON, ROBBIE


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[fj1200]

... BUT a crime to be investigated???

... launch an internal investigation...

"I have directed our Professional Standards Bureau to look into this & determine if any active department employees were involved."

Nobody mentioned a crime being committed.

[revelarts]

If Sharpton and Jackson were taped at some party singing songs about White cops being killed, it'd just be in poor taste right? not an issue to be upset about correct? Nothing to write about or use to point to any general character issues or promoting negative ideas... it's plain ol freedom of speech. people should back off right?

or would that somehow be different?


just wondering.

[Jeff]

Is there a video of this song or could this possible be some more BS the media is making up ? Honestly if there really is a song I think it is tasteless at best, but if this song has surfaced since the two cops where killed that also makes a difference , still IMO bad taste but now look at it as a cop that lost two brothers , bottom line is you can thank Obama , Sharpton, Holder and Jackson in that order for all this racist BS that is happening !!!

[aboutime]

If Sharpton and Jackson were taped at some party singing songs about White cops being killed, it'd just be in poor taste right? not an issue to be upset about correct? Nothing to write about or use to point to any general character issues or promoting negative ideas... it's plain ol freedom of speech. people should back off right?

or would that somehow be different?


just wondering.

It would only be different if YOU endorsed stupidity, and ignorance like that, based on being racists, and having no personal responsibility, common sense, or morality beyond the Uneducated elementary, school bully mentality Sharpton, Obama, Holder, and Jackson...seem to be using that ENTERTAINS people like you.

[revelarts]

It would only be different if YOU endorsed stupidity, and ignorance like that, based on being racists, and having no personal responsibility, common sense, or morality beyond the Uneducated elementary, school bully mentality Sharpton, Obama, Holder, and Jackson...seem to be using that ENTERTAINS people like you.

I'm not sure what you're saying here AT.

i don't endorse the Cops OR Sharpton singing things like that.
Even if it were the ONLY thing negative i'd ever heard from them?
I'd say BOTH would be racist acts of equal "bad taste" and bad effect. Except that the cops are a bit worse SENSE they are PAID to be FAIR and impartial JUST. whereas Sharpton is a self appointed spokesperson that is of questionable character even among blacks.
But still i say BOTH would be racist acts of equal "bad taste" and bad effect.

how about you AT?
Or is it OK for the cops to sing it. and it should be considered just a few guys exercising their God given "Free speech" and went a little off.
But if Sharpton does it. It's the height of racism and proof they (all blacks) want all white cops and white people dead and Sharpton and the like are leading all blacks into race war.

I just wonder AT

(Lets see if you can answer the questions or if you just lead and end with a few personal insults?)

[aboutime]

I'm not sure what you're saying here AT.

i don't endorse the Cops OR Sharpton singing things like that.
Even if it were the ONLY thing negative i'd ever heard from them?
I say BOTH would be racist acts of Equal "bad taste" and bad effect.

how about you AT?
Or is it OK for the cops to sing it. and it should be considered just a few guys exercising their God given "Free speech" and went a little off.
But if Sharpton does it. It's the height of racism and proof they want all white cops and white people dead and are leading all blacks to race war.

I just wonder AT

(Lets see if you can answer the questions or if you just lead and end with a few personal insults?)

Rev. You just managed to prove my point. Look at how insulted, and angry you became when I told the truth.
And, without actually responding. You chose to use the typical personal insult accusations in return.
Too bad you are so blinded by your own hatred.

[revelarts]

Rev. You just managed to prove my point. Look at how insulted, and angry you became when I told the truth.
And, without actually responding. You chose to use the typical personal insult accusations in return.
Too bad you are so blinded by your own hatred.

What are you talking about I don't even know what what your previous comment meant.
...That it'd be different if I endorsed.... Sharpton Obama etc...bullies... that entertain "people like me"?...
WTH, I don't know what that means AT? lol!

I'm not upset at all so please don't read my words that way.
I just wrote a few questions in return.
and based on the last dozen or so comments you've made following my other post which often start with stuff like "REV you are XYZ.. and wrong because you are blah blah ..."
so i was expecting more of the same and got a bit too. no problem.

peace AT