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: Rodney got beat because he kept making bad choices: he'd have been beat if he was White, Asian or Latino.
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| Drunken and drugged out idiot, with a history of violence and crimes, sped away from cops (threat to the community), then resisted arrest, got tased, and kept charging cops. Instead of shooting him, they batoned him: which lead to such a fiasco that we stopped allow batons. And now we shoot threats instead. |
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| I don't think the cops should have beaten Rodney that bad. But the fool did keep getting up. So it is a mix for me. The cops were wrong, just not as wrong as Rodney was. But LAPD was known for being excessive if you resisted -- and Rodney resisted repeatedly. This had nothing to do with color. Yet, I still feel it was a excessive.
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- This was never about race, as no one has ever shown that the LAPD would have acted differently if Rodney was White, Asian or Latino.
- This could be about Police Abuse (excessive force), or policies and procedures. They weren't supposed to shoot him, and a Taser didn't work, so they could dogpile him (and risk life and limb), or baton him. They made the right choice.
- Because of this case, we took away batons in more cases, and now shooting of black felons is more common -- and the same people that felt the beating was excessive are less happy with the shootings. Cause meets effect, even if they can't do 1+1
- The first Rodney King trial was quickly dismissed. It was whether the Police were guilt of reckless endangering/attempted murder of Rodney King: and the answer was correctly, "nope". That wasn't racism -- but it lead to riots amongst the ignorant, angry and racists / Democrats.
- The Jurors were presented with deciding whether the Cops went out there to knowingly assault Rodney King and violently disregard his civil rights to the point of trying to kill him. That didn't fly -- after all, the Cops kept pausing in their beating, and yelling at Rodney King to "lay down" and submit to being arrested, and he kept getting up -- so they would hit him some more (with clubs). That isn't attempted murder, or they wouldn't have stopped.
- Even the prosecutors experts admitted that it was really only the last 10 or 15 seconds that was excessive (out of like 2 minutes) -- but everything before that was according to proceedures. So the first jury wisely decided that the cops were not guilty of what they were accused of.
- The media threw gasoline on the fire, and then a match. They incited racial anger, polarized the issue, and got the L.A. riots they had fanned the flames of: which was great for ratings. The media almost never stressed the DA's decision to throw out the lesser charges: so it was all-or-nothing. They never mentioned that the police would have (or have) done similar things to people of other races.
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- Don't get me wrong: I think the cops went a bit overboard. I wish they would have tried other options.
- There was problem with us vs. them and the thin blue line, and that made things worse
- LAPD rules gave cops the choice of (a) lethal force (shooting him) (b) non-lethal (beating him with clubs). They chose correctly. Taking batons away has resulted in more deaths.
- The cops were stupid to joke about beating down some dumb black guy on the radio afterwards. They would have done that about anyone, but that's never going to play well with the public. And it didn't.
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There was racism.
- The riots were racism: a bunch of ignorant inner-city people attacking the establishment, and in a fit of brilliance, burning their own neighborhoods down. It showed the great problems we have in our inner-cities, and the incredible ignorance, lack of morality, and attitudes about opportunism that exists there.
- Because they targeted Korean properties and "white establishments" first, that certainly was anti-Korean (and anti-White) racism. Like all Asians/Whites were guilty becase of what a few cops did? That's racism.
- Beating Reginald Denny for being white, in the wrong part of town? The assailants admitted to beating the "white guy", and that they were angry at "whites", over the verdict. That was racism
- The second trial (by the Federal Govt. against the police officers) was racism. The cops had been exonerated. And the sham trial that lead to crimes far harsher than they were guilty of, to appease the riotous mob? Why not just burn them at the stake?
The black community could not be reasoned with, they demanded blood, so the city paid by sacrificing a few virgins: unjustly convicting some for the good of society. The jury was not about to consider anything other than "guilty", because they had seen the results of the first trial (the venue should have been changed). So it was more an example of politics in our justice system (or our justice systems shortcoming), than it was an example of racism.
It helps to remember a few things:
- Rodney caused the whole mess, and had multiple opportunities to be arrested without getting beaten: he chose to escalate
- Most people arrested by the LAPD were NOT abused
- If you pissed off cops by running or fighting, it was "Contempt of cop" and they would have beaten the shit out of you, and joked about it, no matter your color
- Rodney King won $3.8M (+$1.7M for legal fees), for the beating in the civil suit -- and the city never pressed charges for intoxicated driving, assault and evading arrest (which he was guilty of), and a beating did not offset the crimes he committed
- He was later arrested/convicted multiple more times for showing equally poor judgement: crashing his car drunk in 1993, 1995 for beating his wife. A hit and run. Drunk driving (speeding and running a red light) in 2003. Drove his vehicle into a house (while intoxicated). Reckless driving. And later he married one of the Jurors that awarded him the money in the civil suit, and when he died of drunk/inebriated swimming (drowning) in 2012, she got that money and the proceeds from his memoirs.
One good thing I can say about him, is while he was a flawed individual, and was the person most responsible for the actions that happened to him on that night (and kept happening in his life), yet he never called for violence against the police, or anyone else. He might have had a substance abuse problem that ultimately destroyed him, yet he wasn't a violent person: just really dumb under the inebriants he kept seeking out.
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