"Members of the Elks Lodge in Glendale, California are outraged after a former police officer hosted a charity event that compared slain teen Michael Brown to a “roadkill dog.”
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According to TMZ, the event was hosted by retired LAPD Officer Joe Myers, and about half of the 50-60 attendees were officers. The gathering was part of an annual charity golf tournament.
[…]For his part, Myers refused to show any remorse for the song.
“How can I dictate what he [Fishell] says in a song?” Myers said. “This is America. We can say what we want. This is a free America.”
The thing is I always go to tumbl things like this and end up deleting them, because it feels futile. If you know, you know, and if you don’t know, you won’t learn it here.
But it would mean so much to go one day, just one day, without something new surfacing in this regard. To go one day where I am reminded that police serve and protect.
But I haven’t felt that way in so long now, and I guess it’s a question of thresholds. I’ve tried to do some work with the NYPD from time to time over the years, and never could see it through. Not because everyone is like these particular motherfuckers on the LAPD… I’ve known NYPD who were just out there doing a very difficult and very dangerous job that most no one else would have the courage to do.
But more than zero of them are like these LAPD singing about dead teenagers who look like swiss cheese, like roadkill. More than zero is way too many, way too scary. Way too many to say nothing about, even if it’s to no one.
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