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Originally Posted by JRutledge
Reasonable people do not care what happen before the parts of the tape were shown. What we care about is what we saw on the tape. Even if he did not listen to police and their direct orders, the police had ample opportunity to take control of the situation and choose to continue to beat them. I have seen many times just on the show “Cops” how several officers take over a situation rather quickly and do not need to constantly beat an individual they way they did Mr. King. I also do not care the character of Rodney King either and how it plays into this situation. There are a lot of incidents with Police that I have witnessed personally that have abused their power and were punished for it. Police officers are not above the law and this was just the case that brought the media and other incidents to the forefront.
Now that is my political statement for the day.
Peace
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I value your comments and not to get off track anymore than we already have, but I want to just make one more comment.
I just burried a brother police officer not much longer than a month ago, after he was shot in the head at point blank range by a suspect when my brother responded to a domestic related call. At this point in my life, MY SAFETY is most important at all times so I can go home to my family at the end of my shift. To most people this is going to sound insensitive but I really am not. If I throw a few extra punches to an uncooperative suspect I am trying to take into custody, and that allows me to go home at the end of my shift... so be it! He shouldn't have resisted in the first place.
Anyways, thats all I wanted to say since someone brought up the good old Rodney King case....