Girl arrest for dropping a cake.

[Zoken]

You think continuously battering a suspect with nightsticks while he's on the ground in feetle postition is "just doing their job". Your veiws are twisted. Next you'll tell me slavery didn't exist and lynch mobs were justified. The video doesn't lie.

He was not in the fetal position, he was constantly trying to get to his feet, just like Mike points out. Look, don't mistake my unemotional evalutation of the circumstances for racism. Slavery existed. It started in the middle east and africa. the modern incarnation of slavery was picked up by the Dutch who learned it from the African tribes. It was an abhorent but factual part of our history. Lynch mobs were not justified, and yet that is what happened to these police officers.

FYI, a few of the officers involved in that incident were african americans. If I remember correctly, they kept telling Rodney to stay on the ground and he kept trying to get up, resulting in the beating (you can see this by watching the video, none of the officers just go up to him and beat him down. They wait until he tries to get back up and hit in areas of the body where they train you to hit with a baton, with the exception of the officer who has had previous assault charges on him before). But those guys should have just cuffed him instead of constinately beating him, they deserved what they got.

They did not approach him because they were operating under the assumption that he was on PCP, which made him a good deal more dangerous in close range fighting. Their training, experience, and instincts were what they went on that night. what would you rather they use, a pocket violence rule book.

 

[Sloth7d]

He was not in the fetal position, he was constantly trying to get to his feet, just like Mike points out. Look, don't mistake my unemotional evalutation of the circumstances for racism. Slavery existed. It started in the middle east and africa. the modern incarnation of slavery was picked up by the Dutch who learned it from the African tribes. It was an abhorent but factual part of our history. Lynch mobs were not justified, and yet that is what happened to these police officers.

Saw the tape. There were several parts where they hit him even when the pain was too much to even move. Though that still doesn't even change the fact that the brutality used against him while he was getting up was just as uncalled for. Several chances were present where a simple hold learned at the academy would do the job. At no time did I see any instance where extreme force was needed especially from four cops to one guy. But if you think This is your idea of police doing there job, then I will never envy your idea of a perfect world one bit. It's ludacris to even think there's a way to justify this. Which is exactly why those men got what they deserved and so will this school officer.

 

[Zoken]

Saw the tape. There were several parts where they hit him even when the pain was too much to even move. Though that still doesn't even change the fact that the brutality used against him while he was getting up was just as uncalled for. Several chances were present where a simple hold learned at the academy would do the job. At no time did I see any instance where extreme force was needed especially from four cops to one guy. But if you think This is your idea of police doing there job, then I will never envy your idea of a perfect world one bit. It's ludacris to even think there's a way to justify this. Which is exactly why those men got what they deserved and so will this school officer.

first of all, your link doesn't lead anywhere. Second, I remember the news footage, you can rarely see King, so how the hell do you know how much pain he was in. And again, the kept their distance and didn't dare approach him because they thought he was on PCP, which would have made him dangerous to handle hand-to-hand. You just take whatever the media gives you and don't bother questioning, don't you. You don't ever consider that the media would blow something out of proportion to fit their desire to sell themselves. Or that "victims" would lie to get money or out of trouble.