JoeB131
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- Jul 11, 2011
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They had King on the ground. Once that is done, you put on the restraints. They weren't using life threatening hits. It was just being punishing and making a point, nothing else. And King knew what he was doing as well.
Yah, it might be easier just to shoot him. But then we have the old Spanish Fascist Gendarmes running around. Being white, I had NEVER been subjected to such a thing until that day. And guess what, that is what many Blacks or African Americans fear on a daily basis. Luckily, we were there just for a TDY of a few days and got the hell out of there. What you want is the Gendarmes for the Blacks who are courteous to us Whites. At least the Gendarmes are complete assholes to everyone.
I don't really disagree with you. But I also sympathize with the cops.
Let's review. We asked the cops to get Crime under control in the 1990's... and frankly, even liberal Democrats signed on to stuff like the 1994 Crime bill. What we didn't do was address the underlying causes of crime - disintegrating families, poverty, racism, addiction, mental illness and the fact that it is WAAAAYYYY too easy to get a damned gun.
So, yeah, I can look at some of these cases and be pretty outraged... but also can understand, you are a cop and god knows what you are going to run into out there.
So going back to Rodney King. They guy was recklessly driving, endangering his two passengers and everyone else on that road. He failed to comply, tasers had no effect on him, he was tossing cops off of him like rag dolls, and then they had to club him multiple times, not because they were being "mean", but because- get this- he was so polluted on PCP that he didn't feel a thing. Someone gets it on tape, and they put these cops on trial.
They get acquitted, riots ensue and the Feds try them again, and pretty much threaten the jury with MORE riots if they don't find someone guilty of something, dammit!!!
So, yeah, I can see where a cop might figure, "Might as well shoot him!" because, honestly, our laws give them a lot of latitude in shooting incidents.