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Killer Cops And Those Who Shill For Them, by Mike Gold – Brainiac on Banjo #384 | @MDWorld

December 8, 2014 Mike Gold 3 Comments

 

Brainiac 384 ArtAmerican way, How did it start?

Thousands of creeps, Killed in the park

American way, Try and explain

Scab of a nation, Driven insane

Don’t cry, Gotta go bye bye

Suddenly die die, Cop kill a creep!

Pow pow pow!

– Frank Zappa, Concentration Moon

Well, it’s been a couple of great weeks for the homicidal bigots on our nation’s police forces.

 

Yeah, yeah. I know. It’s politically correct – it’s actually fucking mandatory – to immediately follow such a statement with something like “well, of course the majority of police are good folks, it’s just a few bad apples, blah blah blah.”

That’s complete bullshit. As long as the good cops cover for the bad cops, they are just as guilty. It’s called “accessory after the fact,” and these “good” cops damn well know all about it. As long as we give a badge and a gun to every Yosemite Sam who walks through the door and can pass the urine test, we’ve got us some real problems.

Right now, we’re dealing with at least 14 recent incidents of cops killing unarmed black men and boys. Of course, the white racists have an excuse for each and every one of them. It’s an incredible coincidence, isn’t it? “He was guilty of a crime.” Yes, that may be true – may be true. We’ll never know, but we do know that a whole lot of cops do not buy that “innocent until proven guilty” thing.

So in the minds of these self-appointed assassins, the punishment for stealing a couple Cigarillos or selling loose cigarettes on the street is summery judgment and execution. Leaving the dead body lying there for hours and hours, well, that’s just the cherry on top of the sundae. It’s okay to execute that 12-year old boy because he was playing with a toy gun. Yes, it’s possible that the toy gun looked like it might be the real thing, but he definitely looked like a 12-year old boy. Shoot first, ask questions later. Praise Judge Dredd and pass the ammunition!

These rabid cops know that they will have the support of their union and of management – amusingly, that’s the one thing that can bring these contradictory forces together. They will have the support of their local prosecutors. These political hacks generally get an indictment well over 90% of the time… except in the case of police shootings, which pretty much carry the exact opposite results. If the case involves a policeperson and his gun, the prosecutor becomes the exonerator.

Many people do not understand that a grand jury proceeding is simply to determine if there’s sufficient reason to go to trial. There are no defense attorneys involved, nobody to challenge witnesses’ statements even if they contradict the statements they originally gave the police. There’s no judge involved to rule on evidence; that’s left for the trial.

The grand jury system is an expensive, justice-delaying totally needless waste of the taxpayers’ money.

Of course, I’m referring to white taxpayers’ money. Black and brown taxpayers get a different sort of bang for their buck.

Mike Gold performs the weekly two-hour Weird Sounds Inside The Gold Mind ass-kicking rock, blues and blather radio show on The Point, www.getthepointradio.com and on iNetRadio, www.iNetRadio.com as part of “Hit Oldies” every Sunday at 7:00 PM Eastern, rebroadcast three times during the week – check www.getthepointradio.com above for times and on-demand streaming information. Gold also joins MDW’s Michael Davis and Martha Thomases as a weekly columnist at www.comicmix.com where he pontificates on matters of four-color.

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  1. Neil C.
    December 8, 2014 - 7:33 am

    Amazing how we think alike: a friend had just posted on Facebook about Garner having all of these domestic arrests. So obviously he deserved to die, and I noted we’re getting closer to Judge Dredd, and there’s the pic. 🙂

  2. Mike Gold
    December 8, 2014 - 8:57 am

    Funny thing. Last Thursday, when Martha Thomases and I joined our comrades to walk from Communist Martyrs High School down to the rally at Foley Square, I flashed at some of the ugly high rises that have come to dominate Manhattan’s East and West Villages and I thought “They should name these monstrosities after people” as they do in Dread’s Mega-City One. Maybe that’s where the allusion here came from.

  3. Rick Oliver
    December 9, 2014 - 10:38 am

    Yep. Mike nailed it. So did Tom Tomorrow’s December 1 Modern World:

    http://www.thenation.com/blogs/tom-tomorrow

  4. Mindy Newell
    December 11, 2014 - 2:27 pm

    Absolutely RIGHT ON, Mike!!!!!!

  5. Steve Chaput
    December 12, 2014 - 2:34 pm

    Any column that begins with some Zappa has my attention.

    I think that ‘police involved shootings’ should be brought to a grand jury, but not by the elected/appointed D.A. There should be a specially appointed prosecutor that does this who doesn’t work daily with the same officers he’s supposed to investigate.

    No one should be surprised that so few cops are actually brought to trial or get a ‘not guilty’ verdict even when they do get before a jury.

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