Inappropriate DJs Suspended

[280PLUS]

ST. LOUIS, Missouri (AP) -- Two hip-hop radio personalities have been suspended for an on-air discussion of ways to fight police officers -- comments made not long after an officer was slain.

Officials at KATZ-FM would not detail the comments, but said the remarks made on Wednesday related to ways to hurt or disarm police officers.

The two suspended disc jockeys, whose professional names are DJ Kaos and DJ Sylli Asz, were discussing with callers on their morning show how to fight for an officer's radio so he or she cannot call for help, the station said.

Lee Clear, general manager of the station, apologized for the comments, calling them "entirely inappropriate."
The radio personalities, whose real names were not immediately available, also apologized.
Clear noted that the station's owner, Clear Channel Communications, had just used its stations to ask the public for information to help find the killer of Sgt. William McEntee, who was fatally shot July 5 in the St. Louis suburb of Kirkwood. A suspect has been arrested.

"We just buried an officer last week," St. Louis Police Chief Joe Mokwa said. "Nobody wants to hear some comic remark about disarming a police officer and taking their radio away so they can't get help. That was outrageous."

 

[GT]

The white man's army and his uncle toms are attacking our neighborhoods killing our brothers, raping our sisters and forcing drugs on our children...

oh wait a minute, sorry I was channelling Malcolm X.

G

 

[jnojr]

f**k the motherf**king police!
They don't want peace, they want a nigga deceased
So he'll cease to be a problem, and by the way the perform
It seems the Klan gave the white police another uniform
And yo the black police, the house niggaz
They gave you a motherf**king gun, so I guess you figure
you made out, good to go, but you didn't know
They would stick your black ass back in the ghetto, yo
To kill another nigga, catch him with crack, in fact
Freebase - they put in the neighborhood in the first place
But the brothers ain't stupid, remember that
You got a gat, I got a gat, so whassup with that
A to the motherf**kin K
The last words you hear, then the smoke appears
Tears, from your motherf**kin family
They're starin at me, but I'm goin gun happy, f**k em!
Shootin everything in sight tonight's the night to get hyped
and fight for what's wrong, f**k what's right!
And by the way, my name is Dre
So listen up motherf**ker to what I gotta say, yo

 

[Old Dog]

Anti-cop rhetoric on a big-city hip-hop radio station? I'm shocked ...

 

[peacefuljeffrey]

Lee Clear, general manager of the station, apologized for the comments, calling them "entirely inappropriate."
The radio personalities, whose real names were not immediately available, also apologized.
Clear noted that the station's owner, Clear Channel Communications, had just used its stations to ask the public for information to help find the killer of Sgt. William McEntee, who was fatally shot July 5 in the St. Louis suburb of Kirkwood. A suspect has been arrested.

"We just buried an officer last week," St. Louis Police Chief Joe Mokwa said. "Nobody wants to hear some comic remark about disarming a police officer and taking their radio away so they can't get help. That was outrageous."

I'm sure those apologies were heartfelt and sincere.
The DJs were willing and content to have the discussions, but when someone criticized them for it suddenly they realized that what they were doing was wrong, and felt bad for doing it? Yeah, right. More like, they just realized that the only way to save their own asses was to play like they felt remorse. They still mean it. Bet.

And the cop's comment: Why does he characterize it as a "comic remark about disarming a police officer and taking their radio away so they can't get help"? COMIC? That sounds a lot more like a reasoned tactic than a flippant "comic remark." Calling it that makes far more light of a very very serious crime than should ever be made.

So apparently even the POLICE CHIEF doesn't think this is a very grave issue, and it's HIS COPS who stand to get victimized. Sounds like he's due for a fragging, I dunno...

-Jeffrey

 

[Standing Wolf]

The two suspended disc jockeys, whose professional names are DJ Kaos and DJ Sylli Asz...

If those are their professional names, I'd rather not know their nicknames.

 

[Sindawe]

Radio DJs.... :banghead: I wonder of these chaps were class mates in DJ school of a pair of bozos we used to have in Denver.

Dusty Saunders of the Rocky Mountain News regularly covers the "antics of the KBPI-FM crew." The morning team at Jacor's KBPI recently charged into a Denver mosque, honking the Star Spangled Banner on a bugle and taunting worshippers during a church service. (The DJs were capitalizing on the refusal of a Denver Nuggets player, a Muslim, to stand during the national anthem.)