Singer at Police Officer benefit compares Michael Brown to a dog and King Kong in racist song

[951-Riverside]

The Glendale, CA Elks Lodge is investigating a shocking incident that went down in the club a week ago Monday, when a performer sang a song celebrating the death of Michael Brown ... for an audience that included a number of retired and current cops ... and TMZ has the video.

The song was a parody of "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown." Gary Fishell, the performer and a member of the Lodge, changed the lyrics, which include:

Michael Brown learned a lesson about a messin'
With a badass policeman

And he's bad, bad Michael Brown
Baddest thug in the whole damn town
Badder than old King Kong
Meaner than a junkyard dog

Two men took to fightin'
And Michael punched in through the door
And Michael looked like some old Swiss cheese
His brain was splattered on the floor

And he's dead, dead Michael Brown
Deadest man in the whole damn town
His whole life's long gone
Deader than a roadkill dog

The event was the capper for a charity golf event, thrown by retired LAPD Officer Joe Myers, a 32 year veteran who left the force in 2007. We're told 50-60 people attended the dinner, and about half were cops, most of whom were retired. The others were civilians.

http://www.tmz.com/2014/12/23/michael-brown-song-video-dead-police-parody-leroy-brown/

You know they're on the hunt for the person who took and sent in this video.

[sakabatou]

1. *pukes*

[Ilsa]

2. disgusting. nt

[Feral Child]

3. Speechless

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Seriously, this is so shocking I can't respond to it.


REC, o/c.

[logosoco]

4. That is just sickening.

If there is such a thing as ghosts, I hope the ghost of Jim Croce goes after this ass and those who listened to it without speaking up.

[morningfog]

5. Sick fucking pigs.

They boo hoo when one of their own are killed but mock the dead black kid. Fuck them.

[TransitJohn]

19. 2 logical fallacies in so few words!

You must be proud of your writing skills.

[daleanime]

35. You almost make me wish...

that I had been quick enough to catch it.....




almost.

[heaven05]

6. Not shocking, not surprising

TYPICAL mentality of police officers today and always really, when it comes to a lot of white police officers nationwide and All black people. Men, women and children of color are just not treated with the same respect or are deemed innocent until proven guilty as most white people who are stopped by police for whatever infraction. Just fact. These clowns remind me of what a KKK celebration must have been like after a night of lynching and castrating men, women and children of color in "the good old days". The human race, and our society/culture in particular, seems to be devolving to those days. Barbarously vicious really.

[ellenrr]

8. ++ (sorry to say i think you are spot-on)

[heaven05]

17. good luck on your

stay here. And speaking of your reference to black on black hate and Jesse, Amerikkkan culture did a good job on people, both black and white, don't you think?

[maryellen99]

21. ....

But white people are perfect and pure as snow right

[dubient]

20. You must a be a cop

You seem to have the same mentality the poster is describing.

[ellenrr]

7. No...cops aren't racist...And how many attendees stood up and said anything? nt

[MH1]

41. Well, someone taped it and thought it needed to see the light of day.

May or may not have been a cop attendee.

I still think not all cops are evil. But stuff like the b.s. with de Blasio, and this, are making it hard to maintain that position.

If there are any good cops, it most be difficult for them to be immersed in this crappy culture. I guess it wouldn't be easy to change jobs, except to take a pay cut as a private security guard.

[blackspade]

10. Sick fucks.

[Enthusiast]

11. +1

[Thespian2]

12. Gary Fishell

who wrote and performed this disgusting POS is himself a disgusting POS. May his soul never know a moments peace.

Of course, I'm sure his audience loved it and honoured him for being so insanely clever.

[truth2power]

26. Who is Gary Fishell? I googled it, but still not clear...

Thanks in advance.

[Feral Child]

49. Nobody

One of the members at this Lodge, which ought to be honest and call itself a Klaven.

[Thespian2]

50. From the Post

The song was a parody of "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown." Gary Fishell, the performer and a member of the Lodge, changed the lyrics, which include:

[marble falls]

54. He's a private investigator and former Federal investigator who also writes "funny" parody songs....

according to his lawyer. The lawyer also says he regrets this performance. I think he regrets getting taped and exposed.

[newfie11]

13. Glad this is out!!!!!

It's disgusting and vile but there's people that deny this shit happens!

[sinkingfeeling]

16. It's disgusting behavior and it doesn't matter if the people attending

and listening to this crap are cops or not. No true human being could sit through that. Something has gone very wrong in this country where people lack empathy and engage in 'group think'.

[Enrique]

22. weren't all the minorities at the Glendale Elks Lodge offended?

[sabrina 1]

60. And all the good cops? Everyone keeps telling us there are so many good cops?

[yuiyoshida]

24. This is totally disgusting

I really hate racists..

[yuiyoshida]

28. Oh you are funny... You're first post and you are a Comedian?

Maybe you should chill with a bit of Boba Tea!

[yuiyoshida]

31. wow...I just love

sending Haters to where they belong, on the outside looking in. THANK YOU MIRT TEAM, THE HATERS are thick TODAY! Doumo arigatou gozaimasu!!

[chrisa]

37. I think it liked you. It was trying to communicate.

[yuiyoshida]

38. It's Japanese was not good enough

Nise mono no Nihonjin desu = Fake Japanese

I feel like I need a good song...

[NuclearDem]

29. Maybe if the cops want to whine about "anti-cop sentiment"

They can start by not pulling shit like this.

[daleanime]

32. No problems here.....

Right? The disconnect is insane.

[onecaliberal]

34. Vile disgusting trash

[Tsiyu]

36. So they have no regard for human life

unless it's a cop life, and then they declare war upon the loss.

Wow.

Some humans never cease to disappoint and disgust me.

May they reap what they have sown...

[maryellen99]

39. Where was the anger from the cops and white FOX viewers

When those 2 cops in Vegas were shot dead eating lunch by those 2 white RWNJs?

[ProfessorGAC]

40. A "Musician". . .

. . . (and i use the word loosely) thata needs the taste slapped out of his mouth.

[MH1]

42. "Name Removed" sure has been active on this thread.

Who can defend this garbage? What kind of twisted soulless p.o.s. would defend this?

[arcane1]

47. Welcome back.

[KingCharlemagne]

43. Contact info for the Glendale, CA Elks Lodge:

120 E. Colorado St, Glendale, CA 91205
[phone]

National contact info:

BPO Elks of the USA
2750 N. Lakeview Avenue
Chicago, IL 60614-1889
[phone]

I will be calling the Glendale Lodge to register my intense dissatisfaction as soon as our household is up and about.

[MadDAsHell]

44. Sick...but racist? I don't see a mention of race in the whole thing...

If you're saying the dog and King Kong references are racist, that's a bit of a stretch...those are words from the original song.

I understand that what's in the news is making everyone race-sensitive right now, but if everything is racist, then nothing is racist.

I personally feel we're starting to lean a little bit towards crying wolf, and if we get there, we're going to lose people's understanding, sympathy, and justified anger towards real racism.

[Feral Child]

48. WORST cop-apologist ever.

Pretty sure you'll be joining your buddies soon.

[marble falls]

55. Looks that way to me, too.

[Feral Child]

66. We're inundated

with these fools.

What do trolls think they accomplish? I doubt if a single DUer has ever been convinced by their"logic".

They come here to annoy, we laugh at them, they get frustrated and banned. It's not like they're actually disrupting any real discussion. They just provide some amusement.

[marble falls]

57. A song about a racially charged shooting of a black by a white cop, one of many, many, many isn't...

racist? Really? How do you figure. It is a sick song either way, but it is racist, too. Intentionally or not. Racist.

You may think its crying wolf, but if its not watched we'll become the discussionist or worse: Freep.

[MadDAsHell]

62. "Racially charged shooting"

It's a "racially charged shooting" not because any evidence in the case indicates that, or because any history of the individuals involved indicates that, but solely because people are calling it such.

If I say enough times that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, then it must be so, even if there is zero evidence supporting that assertion. Right?

Yet another completely unjustified police murder of a private citizen? Absolutely. But there is ZERO evidence that the shooting was racially charged except for the fact that the 2 main individuals involved had different skin hues.

Have we really now decided that in any case, the fact that people of different races were involved is the sole determiner of whether race played a role?

[marble falls]

67. Its a racually charged shooting because it is one of many. This didn't happen in a vacuum. Black....

cops aren't shooting unarmed white kids in the same kind of numbers representationally. This shooting didn't happen by itself, it was in a long streak of white cop/black victim.

" But there is ZERO evidence that the shooting was racially charged except for the fact that the 2 main individuals involved had different skin hues."

Did you even read that when you posted it? That same fact has been repeated over and over and over.

"Have we really now decided that in any case, the fact that people of different races were involved is the sole determiner of whether race played a role?"

How about by the fact that that its happened over and over and over and the fact that the justice department has become involved in some of these investigation?

Cops shoot too many people, period. They also seem to have it all out for black males between the age of 12 and 30.

Your Iraq point was just too goofy for more than these words. They never had evidence for WMDs because they never existed. Are you saying these overwhelmingly black victims never existed?

[snooper2]

45. The south strikes again!

Oh wait...

California...oh...hmm...

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

51. DING DING DING DING, and you are the only one I think who pointed this out, I was dying to

but you beat me to it

[Ken Burch]

53. Glendale is in SOUTHERN California:

And it is the hometown of THIS KKK:

[Jappleseed]

52. One wonders where the typical police thuggery apologizers are.

They seem so active, yet for some reason they are mute on this.

[Initech]

56. Further proof that Weird Al is the only person in the world who can make a good song parody.

[workinclasszero]

58. Dirty bastards

The difference between these racist scum and right wing death squads is.......

Did the KKK just take over all police dept's in America or what?

[santamargarita]

59. Well I hope they never find him.

[Tommymac]

61. Holy Singalong Batman!

You can actually hear some of the sick fucks singing along with the chorus at the end!

I am so not proud to be an American right now.

[No Vested Interest]

63. You have to wonder what was the charity

that benefitted from this "performance."

[DonCoquixote]

64. Hillary

I know you are courting the same sort of Reagan democrats who love this crap, but it would do a lot of good if you could , in no smarm layered BS, condemn this crap.

[benz380]

65. I'm sure Hillary will make a comment...

...once her handlers tell her which way the wind is blowing. They'll find a way for her comments to satisfy both Wall Street and her worshipers.