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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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.
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.
If he was beating you, would you call it a MISTAKE? Would you be judgmental?
November 3, 1989: King, brandishing a TIRE IRON, ordered a convenience store clerk to empty the cash register. The clerk grabbed the tire iron, causing King to fall backwards and knock over a pie rack. King SWUNG the rack at the clerk and fled the store with $200.
If he was robbing you in such a manner, would you call it a MISTAKE? Would you be judgmental?
March 3, 1991: After being seen speeding on the 210 freeway by CHP officers, King led them on a chase at speeds estimated at up to 110 to 115 mph.
If he was driving by you, would you call it a MISTAKE? Would you be judgmental? If he got in an accident and killed you or a family member, would you think as you do?
Click on the link and read the arrest record (up to Sept. 2001) and tell me if you would li...
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.
If he was beating you, would you call it a MISTAKE? Would you be judgmental?
November 3, 1989: King, brandishing a TIRE IRON, ordered a convenience store clerk to empty the cash register. The clerk grabbed the tire iron, causing King to fall backwards and knock over a pie rack. King SWUNG the rack at the clerk and fled the store with $200.
If he was robbing you in such a manner, would you call it a MISTAKE? Would you be judgmental?
March 3, 1991: After being seen speeding on the 210 freeway by CHP officers, King led them on a chase at speeds estimated at up to 110 to 115 mph.
If he was driving by you, would you call it a MISTAKE? Would you be judgmental? If he got in an accident and killed you or a family member, would you think as you do?
Click on the link and read the arrest record (up to Sept. 2001) and tell me if you would like to be passing him on the street when he feels tempted to make a "mistake".
After all, he is a human being (notoriously know to be the most deadly animals on the planet) and deserves respect. Don't be judgmental, though. Remember we are human beings and all have made mistakes.
If you have a daughter, would you like to see her date/marry someone of such character? Would you worry about her being beaten, perhaps to death while he is in a drunken/drugged state? Tell me. "Inquiring minds want to know."
It's easy to look at the good side of evil people when you don't have to be involved with them. If you are, you're a loser.
I'm not condoning anything hes done AND I'm not too high and mighty to judge others as tho I am better. He was an addict and hes admitted that. He did wrong and he admitted that...
I'm not going to agree with you so you might as well stop while you're at it
These mistakes were not like, say, forgetting to mail out a bill on time, spilling milk on the floor. Those are simple every day mistakes. Beating ones wife and daughter is more than a mistake for which he can apologize for and simply admit to and be exonerated.
Oh, he committed such a terrible mis·take - an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, insufficient knowledge, etc.
Wait until you are on the receiving end someday. Let's hear all of this liberal crap being spewed by you then. Good luck.
Uh, I don't think so. You must not have watched the video or seen the aftermath. Your cable fo out?
But I agree.
If you were to replace Denny on the ground, what would you expect?
Since you are a human, would you throw a brick into someones face, especially since that person had nothing whatsoever to do with what caused the riot? I guess you wouldn't mind being beaten or killed since it was humans involved. What do you expect?
Welcome to the fair!
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Extermination of white people?
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Enjoy and good luck.
Angry people have trouble seeing the whole picture, sometimes. You need to not think in terms of execptions.
{blacks get the same treatment in court as blacks.}
Blacks commit more crimes so they get caught more often and get sent to jail. What do you want from me?
{Angry people have trouble seeing the whole picture, sometimes.}
Well, if someone is angry with you and has trouble seeing the whole picture sometimes and smashes your face with a brick when you did nothing wrong but be there, write to me from your hospital bed on SH and tell me what you think. Your sympathy and empathy is misplaced. You are very paternalistic to black people; Oh, it's OK. It's all our fault." "Oh, we brought you over here in chains as slaves so you can be angry with us if that helps you vent."
Oh, the white man is so bad so it's OK to riot and loot and burn. I understand."
{You need to not think in terms of execptions.}
If you thought that those few links were "exceptions", I have many more that I can provide for you on "killing white babies" and more blacks attacking whites for NO reason whatsoever. They are not here with clean hands either. I don't make exceptions or excuses for them and neither would I for the Klan.
It is a pity, however, that substance abuse robbed him of his three score, and 10.
I wish his family well in any time of grief, and I wish no hardship or suffering on him or anyone in the midst of his death, but I have no respect for that disgrace.