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Cop to be suspended over playing 'Sweet Home Alabama' at protest
RedEye ^ | Megan Crepeau

Posted on 12/11/2014 9:59:11 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

The Chicago police officer who played "Sweet Home Alabama" from of a police car during a West Side anti-police-violence protest over the weekend will be disciplined, according to a news release sent from the Chicago Police Department on Thursday.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago; music; police; protest; rayciss; sweethomealabama
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To: ConservativeStatement
Maybe he should have played The Alabama Song by Lotte Lenye & the Three Admirals, from 1930.
21 posted on 12/11/2014 10:23:46 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Kirkwood

Yoko Ono works even faster, but that would violate the Geneva Convention.


22 posted on 12/11/2014 10:24:05 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: ConservativeStatement

Play some of David Allen Coe’s underground stuff and see what happens.


23 posted on 12/11/2014 10:25:27 PM PST by LukeL
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To: txnativegop
I'd have played classic blues:

Well I'm southbound, lord I'm comin' home to you.
Well I'm southbound, baby, lord I'm comin' home to you.
I got that old lonesome feelin' that's sometimes called the blues.

Well I been workin' every night, travelin' every day.
Yes I been workin' every night, traveling every day.
You can tell your other man, sweet daddy's on his way.
Aww, ya better believe.

Well I'm southbound.
Whoa I'm southbound.
Well you can tell your other man, sweet daddy's on his way.

(guitar solo)

Got your hands full now baby, as soon as I hit that door.
You'll have your hands full now woman, just as soon as I hit that door.
Well I'm gonna make it on up to you for all the things you should have Had before.

Lord, I'm southbound.
Yes I'm southbound.
Whoa I'm southbound, baby.
Said I'm southbound.
Well I'm gonna make it on up to you for all the things you should Have had before.

(piano solo)

(guitar solo)

24 posted on 12/11/2014 10:26:29 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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>> Cop to be suspended over playing ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ at protest

And if it were the kind of rap music that advances crimes against LEOs, would the city care?


25 posted on 12/11/2014 10:28:30 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: goldstategop

they’d still call you

WACIST lol


26 posted on 12/11/2014 10:31:35 PM PST by txnativegop (Tired of liberals, even a few in my own family.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Silly Conservatives....

Don’t you know that “Alabama” is a racist codeword for slavery and White Privilege??

/S?


27 posted on 12/11/2014 10:35:20 PM PST by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: tcrlaf

Does that include the “Alabama Song” by the Doors? /sarc.


28 posted on 12/11/2014 10:41:25 PM PST by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: txnativegop
What they need in Chicago:

"River Of Endless Love"

I'm looking for a better world
Where there's no more hurt
Where there's only hope
For the eagle and the dove
I can see your face
Nothing can take your place
If we sail away on a river of endless love

I'm living in the hands of time
On the wings of love
On the edge of night
Where there's darkness everywhere
I won't be denied
I'm never going to leave your side
I will always be
On the river of endless love

In the silence just before the dawn
The shadows lose their form
We rise to greet the morning
In the calm that comes before the storm
A troubled and a restless heart is born
The river of endless love

I'm tearing down the walls of hate
Gonna start again gonna turn it round
Gonna build it with a prayer
I can always dream
And nothing is what it seems
If you lose your way

In the silence just before the dawn
The shadows lose their form
We rise to greet the morning
In the calm that comes before the storm
A troubled and a restless heart is born
The river of endless love

29 posted on 12/11/2014 10:43:28 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Outrageous! Waterboard that LEO ASAP!


30 posted on 12/11/2014 10:44:36 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: ConservativeStatement

I want to know what Neil Young’s opinion is before I make up my own. Is the S needed?


31 posted on 12/11/2014 11:10:20 PM PST by o-n-money
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To: goldstategop

Could have just played ‘In the ghetto’ by Elvis,
at least it depicts the damn truth about this awful city.


32 posted on 12/11/2014 11:13:48 PM PST by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: ConservativeStatement

He should have played “I fought the law and the law won”.


33 posted on 12/11/2014 11:24:43 PM PST by Nateman (If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Freedom of speech is un-american and racist... Like the statement “all lives matter.”


34 posted on 12/11/2014 11:27:29 PM PST by golux
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To: F15Eagle

I guess ‘Dixie’ is on the no-play list, too.


36 posted on 12/11/2014 11:40:40 PM PST by alpo (Boehner is a boner)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

My black friend/supervisor plays this song from his Pandora list in at work. Also, he is from Alabama. We don’t talk politics, but I’m suee he leans more to the left, but certainly not full blown and stupid, like we have seen in Ferguson and elsewhere recently.


37 posted on 12/12/2014 12:16:02 AM PST by Stayingawayfromthedarkside (Tea Party Anarchists? Freedom = Anarchy to communists.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Sweet Home Alabama...

Why I never! This really angers me...

Oh wait! No it doesn’t. What the...


38 posted on 12/12/2014 12:28:41 AM PST by DoughtyOne (GOP. GOPe. GOPeGads! GOPeWWWWWWWWWWWWW...)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Turn It Up.

CC


39 posted on 12/12/2014 1:22:21 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (Tagline Constructon zone- low humor ahead)
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To: o-n-money

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCd43ntfxB0


40 posted on 12/12/2014 1:42:06 AM PST by oblomov
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