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Showing Original Post only (View all)Singer at Police Officer benefit compares Michael Brown to a dog and King Kong in racist song [View all]
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.
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.
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Singer at Police Officer benefit compares Michael Brown to a dog and King Kong in racist song [View all]
951-Riverside
Dec 2014
OP
He's a private investigator and former Federal investigator who also writes "funny" parody songs....
marble falls
Dec 2014
#54
And all the good cops? Everyone keeps telling us there are so many good cops?
sabrina 1
Dec 2014
#60
A song about a racially charged shooting of a black by a white cop, one of many, many, many isn't...
marble falls
Dec 2014
#57
Its a racually charged shooting because it is one of many. This didn't happen in a vacuum. Black....
marble falls
Dec 2014
#67
DING DING DING DING, and you are the only one I think who pointed this out, I was dying to
NoJusticeNoPeace
Dec 2014
#51