Cops, including those from the Los Angeles Police Department, seemed to be the butt of some inflamatory jokes at this year's MTV Video Music Awards. Producers gave host Miley Cyrus a "no rules" rule, but some think the show went too far: The LAPD was accused of killing a rapper and Rebel Wilson joked that her issue wasn't with the police – it was with "stripper police."
Just days after Houston Deputy Darren H. Goforth was murdered execution-style by cop hater Shannon J. Miles – when other networks were scuttling shows with themes that were even remotely similar to the tragedy – MTV went forward with a pre-recorded sketch where Miley Cyrus and a few rapper friends are using a Ouija board. They ask the spirit of late rapper Christopher Wallace – a.k.a. Notorious B.I.G. – "Who killed you?" The response from the board spells out "L.A.P.D." The video cuts out as the planchette marker points to the "D" and, as part of the sketch, it appears the feed had been cut as the screen reads "technical difficulties."
Biggie was shot in 1997 as he left a Soul Train Music Awards after-party. His killer was never apprehended.
The jabs at the police come barely a week after a black man shot a white reporter and her camera man on-air in an attempt to incite a race war, a day after a man executed a police officer in Texas and after a year of racial tension as black men (like Michael Brown and Eric Garner) and women (like Sandra Bland) were killed by white cops around the nation or died while in police custody.
Read about Miley Cyrus and the free reign she was given for the VMAs HERE.
Read more about Vester Lee Flanagan's manifesto HERE.
Read more about the Texas shooting HERE.
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