I feel empathy for Reginald Denny, an innocent truck driver who happened to be driving in the wrong place at the wrong time and got hit on his head by a brick by a black man who didn't give a damn if he killed Denny or not.
Rodney King Dead at 47: Icon or Agitator?
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2012/06/18 18:26:37
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Rodney King, the victim of an infamous incident of police brutality in 1991, was found dead at the bottom of his swimming pool Sunday morning. According to police, there are no signs of foul play, and the death is being ruled as accidental. It will take six to eight weeks for toxicology reports to come through. He was 47 years old at the time of his death.
The 1991 brutality incident made national headlines when a bystander sent in video footage, and the aquittal of three of the officers contributed to the beginning of the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Earlier this year, King told The Times, "I sometimes feel like I'm caught in a vise. Some people feel like I'm some kind of hero. Others hate me. They say I deserved it. Other people, I can hear them mocking me for when I called for an end to the destruction, like I'm a fool for believing in peace." Do you think King was an civil rights icon?
The 1991 brutality incident made national headlines when a bystander sent in video footage, and the aquittal of three of the officers contributed to the beginning of the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Earlier this year, King told The Times, "I sometimes feel like I'm caught in a vise. Some people feel like I'm some kind of hero. Others hate me. They say I deserved it. Other people, I can hear them mocking me for when I called for an end to the destruction, like I'm a fool for believing in peace." Do you think King was an civil rights icon?
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+33King started a dangerous high speed car chase because he was intoxicated and didn't want to violate his parole for a 1989 store robbery. I'm not making excuses for the police brutality. That was uncalled for.
I feel empathy for Reginald Denny, an innocent truck driver who happened to be driving in the wrong place at the wrong time and got hit on his head by a brick by a black man who didn't give a damn if he killed Denny or not.
{Don't have to riot when the system favors you}
{The Judge and jury did by giving those pigs a slap on the wrist}
Sure you are. Read your excuses above.
How can they Legislate if they have no money/ political influence?
It's voting for legislators to take care of their interests. There are plenty of Black legislators (local, state and federal) that look after their interests already.
{what do you expect to happen?}
I expect them not to kill, maim, loot and burn. Their working against their own best interests. How would you like to get up one day and go to work and find the building burned down and then you see your boss and ask what happened and he says, "We,, the Euro-Caucasian people were mad about the way something went so they burned the store down. Now I have to tell everyone else they're out of a job."
Your sympathies are in the wrong place. I make NO excuse for them. No matter what, it should not have been done.
Man shot on camera by the police - Police brutality
http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
King wouldn't stay down as instructed. If they had beaten him if he complied, you would have a case.
Ever hear on Black on Black racism?
Africans vs African-Americans?--yeah, they think they're better than us or something, yes it does exist
What the Police did to King was wrong, but it was not a race issue. It was a case of police brutality, which involves people of all colors and it usually happens when Police are in high adrenaline suitations when there is anger or fear involved.
Make no mistake, King was not a good person. King was once a violent drug dealer and who remained a drug addict/alcoholic throughout his life.
The first of MANY charges. Enjoy.
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/...
July 27, 1987: According to a complaint filed by his wife, King beat her while she was sleeping, then dragged her outside the house and beat her again. King was charged with battery and pleaded "no contest." He was placed on probation and ordered to obtain counseling. He never got the counseling.
Don't you research this stuff before you jump in with both feet?
Man shot on camera by the police - Police brutality
http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/...
July 27, 1987: According to a complaint filed by his wife, King beat her while she was sleeping, then dragged her outside the house and beat her again. King was charged with battery and pleaded "no contest." He was placed on probation and ordered to obtain counseling. He never got the counseling.
Click on the link for more. Which do you want to meet in a dark alley? The LAPD or Rodney
They didn't know that when they pulled him over. They saw a black man, and sure gave him different treatment than had a white guy been doing the same thing. Period. Plus, he was in a PRONE position while shielding his head from being bashed in. I'd hardly call THAT a threat to community safety worthy of continuing to beat him. If that isn't Subdued, and entirely easy to arrest properly, then I don't know what is.
I have family who are and have been police officers - upstanding and just people I love and admire for their courage of convictions, and I think the LAPD officers who beat Rodney King were reprehensible.
The rioters were no better. Vigilante justice is NO ANSWER.
Man shot on camera by the police - Police brutality
http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
2.A person or thing regarded as a representative symbol of something.