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

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

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

BY MICHAEL FLEEMAN
LOS ANGELES Wed Dec 24, 2014 4:21am EST

(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.

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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."

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/24/us-usa-police-song-idUSKBN0K20JF20141224

[rock]

1. "a badass policeman"

(Sic) that should of course be "a butt hole policeman".

[dubient]

2. No

I think coward would be more appropriate but it doesn't rhyme.

[rock]

3. Well I admit

I didn't really want to insult butt holes, they do a really necessary job.

On Edit: Oh, and welcome to DU. I didn't notice at first.

[pennylane100]

4. Sadly Chief Beck is wrong when he says

"Like many of you, I find it offensive & absurd. It does not reflect the values of the #LAPD."

Unfortunately, it actually mirrors the value of way too many LAPD personnel. Retraining for sensitivity and reinforcing the protection that civilians should have under current laws is a waste of time. If cops do not understand these basic rights on their first day on the job, they do not deserve to be employed.

We have laws such at "three strikes" and "mandatory sentencing for non violent crimes". we meed the same standard for cops. One strike and you are fired works for me.