"Can't We All Just Get Along?" - Rodney King RIP...

[SUPERECWFAN1]

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/17/us/obi...ing/index.html

Sadly Rodney King was found dead in his pool today. The image of King will always be remembered for the beating he took from the cops back in 1991 and how his case started the LA Riots then. The past few years King went through his own problems after he won $3.8 million dollars against the city of LA. The man had alcohol issues and had issues with drinking even then. He showed up a few years ago in a Celeb Rehab show to try and beat his alcoholism . But today it seems it caught up to him and his fiancee found him.

RIP ....

[finfangfool]

That video was a turning point. For those not old enough to remember, imagine how you felt about Casey Anthony being let go and multiply it times a billion. An actual video of a man getting beaten, and not "well he's stopped now let's rough him up a bit to teach him a lesson", an honest to goodness continual vicious beating to the point where I'm surprised he lived to 2012. And as much as I don't like the idea of rioting, or vandalism, I remember the feeling of "are you f##king kidding me?" when they said "not guilty" and I'm just a white boy from New England. If I'd had relatives who'd gone through similar things, if I'd been harassed by the police continually for no good reason other than something I couldn't do anything about, I totally understood why people went nuts. Not sure if it'd be disrespectful to post the video in his memorial thread, but if you're too young or just not familiar go to youtube and watch it (for as long as you can) and think "not guilty".

[needler420]

That video was a turning point. For those not old enough to remember, imagine how you felt about Casey Anthony being let go and multiply it times a billion. An actual video of a man getting beaten, and not "well he's stopped now let's rough him up a bit to teach him a lesson", an honest to goodness continual vicious beating to the point where I'm surprised he lived to 2012. And as much as I don't like the idea of rioting, or vandalism, I remember the feeling of "are you f##king kidding me?" when they said "not guilty" and I'm just a white boy from New England. If I'd had relatives who'd gone through similar things, if I'd been harassed by the police continually for no good reason other than something I couldn't do anything about, I totally understood why people went nuts. Not sure if it'd be disrespectful to post the video in his memorial thread, but if you're too young or just not familiar go to youtube and watch it (for as long as you can) and think "not guilty".

How were you surprised he lived to 2012? Iv been jumped just as bad in a Juvenile facilty and I'm still alive. I'm surprised he hasn't had even more troble that's why his death is not really at all shocking to me. While I do admit those cops were guilty and it was police brutality that was racially motivated. the king has always had a troubled life. I heard in the incident that sparked it he ran from cops with coke at 120 MPH. Not saying he deserved what he got just saying his whole life was full of legal and substance abuse trouble.

[Chiasm]

That video was a turning point. For those not old enough to remember, imagine how you felt about Casey Anthony being let go and multiply it times a billion. An actual video of a man getting beaten, and not "well he's stopped now let's rough him up a bit to teach him a lesson", an honest to goodness continual vicious beating to the point where I'm surprised he lived to 2012. And as much as I don't like the idea of rioting, or vandalism, I remember the feeling of "are you f##king kidding me?" when they said "not guilty" and I'm just a white boy from New England. If I'd had relatives who'd gone through similar things, if I'd been harassed by the police continually for no good reason other than something I couldn't do anything about, I totally understood why people went nuts. Not sure if it'd be disrespectful to post the video in his memorial thread, but if you're too young or just not familiar go to youtube and watch it (for as long as you can) and think "not guilty".

He was a PCP duster. Unless you've seen one of them in action you truly have no idea how much force it literally takes to stop them from fighting. Very conveniently the video the news always shows leaves out the first several minutes of the fight where King was literally going berserk on the cops and nothing they did was slowing him down or bringing him down. What you see is th tail end where finally the cops started to get the upper hand and then failed to stop once King finally was started to wear down. Oh they went too far but King was hardly an innocent victim that night. The jury got to see the whole video, unlike 99.9% of the public who formed an opinion based on very incomplete information. The jury saw no innocent parties in this and felt that both sides contributed to the problem. Thats why the cops were found not guilty. They, including the blacks on the jury, saw King in all his PCP psychotic rage not going down for several minutes and probably felt he got what he deserved.

There are clearly cases of police abuses out there like the Diallo case in New York. Its unfortunate that Rodney King is still a rallying point for those who don't like the police given how not a victim he truly was. Again I'm not saying the police were innocent as they did go too far at the end but King was not in any way a sympathetic victim.

[Rasputin9977]

^ Pretty much. Because of King, two officers' lives were ruined. And what happend to King? He won 3+M and pissed it all away only to end up dead in a pool. If there were true justice, these two cops should have still been out there protecting LA citizens today.

[needler420]

^ Pretty much. Because of King, two officers' lives were ruined. And what happend to King? He won 3+M and pissed it all away only to end up dead in a pool. If there were true justice, these two cops should have still been out there protecting LA citizens today.

More then that since those cops were acquitted 55 people died as related to the incident. Not to mention that trucker that got hit which was a purely racially motivated hate crime. The guys that hit him are known as the famouns LA four. They cracked his skull and knocked his eye out of his socket.

Then the LA 4 either all died or are in Prison. The retaliation from the LA 4 was worse to me then what the cops did.

[suss2it]

More then that since those cops were acquitted 55 people died as related to the incident. Not to mention that trucker that got hit which was a purely racially motivated hate crime. The guys that hit him are known as the famouns LA four. They cracked his skull and knocked his eye out of his socket.

Then the LA 4 either all died or are in Prison. The retaliation from the LA 4 was worse to me then what the cops did.

Except for Henry Keith Watson who is a former marine, apoligized to the guy on some TV show and apparently runs his own limousine service now.

[needler420]

Its funny I'm watching American history X on Encore right now. Norton is giving the rodney king speech to his mothers Jewish bf at dinner. Great movie jail reformed him but he couldn't save his brother.

[Cthulhudrew]

He was a PCP duster.

Um.

Rodney King wasn't on PCP.

[Darrell D.]

^ Pretty much. Because of King, two officers' lives were ruined. And what happend to King? He won 3+M and pissed it all away only to end up dead in a pool. If there were true justice, these two cops should have still been out there protecting LA citizens today.

What, protecting them with clubs to the head?
The Rodney King tape was an eye-opening experience to anyone who wasn't a minority or dirt poor in LA, I'm sure. For others, it was something that was happening all the time.

[Shawn Hopkins]

King wasn't on PCP or cocaine. He was just drunk.

Here is also the full George Holliday video. It does show King lunge or run at an officer, but it's the first three seconds of the video, there aren't several minutes of King resisting and the beating is not at the tail end, all of the blows come in the first minute or so. George Holliday was putting on his pants and setting up his camera during the early part of the incident, you have to remember he shot this with a camcorder, not an iPhone.



http://articles.latimes.com/1993-03-...eorge-holliday

[7thangel]

He was a PCP duster. Unless you've seen one of them in action you truly have no idea how much force it literally takes to stop them from fighting. Very conveniently the video the news always shows leaves out the first several minutes of the fight where King was literally going berserk on the cops and nothing they did was slowing him down or bringing him down. What you see is th tail end where finally the cops started to get the upper hand and then failed to stop once King finally was started to wear down. Oh they went too far but King was hardly an innocent victim that night. The jury got to see the whole video, unlike 99.9% of the public who formed an opinion based on very incomplete information. The jury saw no innocent parties in this and felt that both sides contributed to the problem. Thats why the cops were found not guilty. They, including the blacks on the jury, saw King in all his PCP psychotic rage not going down for several minutes and probably felt he got what he deserved.

There are clearly cases of police abuses out there like the Diallo case in New York. Its unfortunate that Rodney King is still a rallying point for those who don't like the police given how not a victim he truly was. Again I'm not saying the police were innocent as they did go too far at the end but King was not in any way a sympathetic victim.

are you going to correct your post?

another thing, this idea that he wasn't an innocent. so fucking. what. they went beyond necessary force.

[Shellhead]

I bet the autopsy shows that King was extremely drunk again when he drowned in the pool.

[Shawn Hopkins]

I bet the autopsy shows that King was extremely drunk again when he drowned in the pool.

No way. It'll show he had superhuman strength from PCP and was fighting the water. The water had to drown him, there are no innocent victims here.

But yeah, he did still drink, and alcohol is a factor in 70 percent of unintentional drownings of adults and adolescents, so that's very likely.

[needler420]

No way. It'll show he had superhuman strength from PCP and was fighting the water. The water had to drown him, there are no innocent victims here.

But yeah, he did still drink, and alcohol is a factor in 70 percent of unintentional drownings of adults and adolescents, so that's very likely.

Very likely?. The guy was on celebrity rehab and always had trouble with substance abuse. I kind of doubt he just passed out or had a heart attack in his pool.

While the King got a beating that no one deserves you're still going to get roughed up when you run from cops at 120 MPH and take a lunge at them. Even my dad has cursed at cops before while he was drunk. Want to know what a lot of them do they pull the car over and make you shut up or they take you to the mop room back at the station.

To me the riots was worse and the attacks on the trucker. OJ simpson's case was a black on white crime when OJ got acquitted no one rioted and no one got hurt. All people said is better justice could have been done. OJ's case was a black on white homicide of a white girl dying. The kings case was him getting the beating and other people dying from it.

Rosa parks not being able to sit on the bus was more racists then Kings case. Run from the cops at 120 MPH it doesn't matter who you are you're going to get a knee and elbow in the back of the head before the cuffs go on. Just probably less batons hits to the dome.