Officer 'Inserted Song Titles During Inquest'

Von Smallhausen said:
I am well aware of the Rodney King case and found the LAPD's actions deplorable then as I do now.

It still doesn't change the fact that I don't like rap as in me, personally and it has nothing to do with police, colour or social problems in the USA and beyond. It does nothing for me and never has.

If it floats the boat of others then all well and good. I certainly wouldn't try to change their minds.
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Nah, that's fine, I know it's very much down to personal taste. To be honest, I find a lot of rap music fairly objectionable because of the violence, the misogyny and the criminal content. A lot of it is born out of the prejudice and inequality that black people have suffered, particularly in America. My brother actually wrote his English degree dissertation on the origins of rap music in the historic enslavement and subjugation of black people.

Jay Z is about as close to the edge as I get. I much prefer The Beastie Boys.
 
It might not affect the case but if i was a senior officer i would seriously question whether this guy deserves to have such an important job. It just shows that he's treating it as a joke and not taking it seriously, i am 100% in favour of the police in this case but that doesn't excuse them playing games whilst testifying that they potentially took a man's life.

Personally i'd sack the guy for gross unprofessional behaviour.
 
Thing is, there's been however many hundreds of years of creating songs. Pick anyone's testimony and you could most likely match up some things that have been said song lyrics.
 
Von Smallhausen said:
And IPPC spokesman today said **** the po-leece, strongly denying any reference to 80s rap star Flavour Flave.

On a more serious note, this is not a matter for the IPCC in my humble opinion. It is a matter than can be dealt with and investigated internally.
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Then he could have sung Getting Off by Scott Free(yes he is real) ;)
 
iviv said:
If they had proof, then the officer in question wouldn't have 'allegedly' inserted the lyrics, would he? He would deffinately have?
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It's subject to an investigation, so it has to be described as "allegedly" occurring, in the same way that murder suspects only "allegedly" killed their victims until the point at which they are pronounced guilty, at which point history is set.
 
GreatAuk said:
As long as everything he said was true, I can't really see a problem. Just because someone doesn't like how you say something doesn't make what you said invalid.
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No one is explicitly saying it's invalid, but they are saying he was not taking it seriously, which could mean that his testimony is innacurate or possibly even invalid if he tailored it to include silly phrases such as the titles of songs.
 
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