Rodney King revisited

[Gyp Rosetti]

What do you think his race is? That would make a good thread?

 

[Hopper]

There aint but a few posters on this board who care to discuss anything serious, eh? Mainly they just prefer to talk about the last movie or TV show they seen. Or other posters, of course. That's always popular.

 

[Hopper]

So, instead they just beat him as he stumbled all over the road? That makes a lot of sense.

Well, kwb, it does make sense. Only a fool would try to argue with a cop. You say "Yes, sir" to everything he asks or requests. Generally ya won't git beat that way. So, basically, you're just beggin for a beatin if ya don't. Everybody knows that's what's gunna happen. If it didn't, then ya would start to wonder where the "sense" is, I figure.

Non-cooperation is a crime, aint it? "Interfering with a police officer" or sumthin like that? That's what they all tell me, anyway. You either do anything they say and/or tell them anything they want to know, or you're a criminal who is interfering with a police officer, and therefore just askin for a beatin.

 

[The-Joker]

So, instead they just beat him as he stumbled all over the road? That makes a lot of sense.

He was on PCP.. a powerful drug that makes the victim pretty much feel like they are invincible. They don't feel pain, and the amount of testoserone and other hormones triggered over powers the victim. They'll fight back even if they would be incapacitated under normal circumstances. Too put it briefly, homeboy was hardly affected for more than a few seconds by 2 simultaneous tasers.

Don't question the cops, you can get away with 2 cops acting like jack asses... but there were 5 or 6 liscenced and trained individuals repsonsible for this, and not one of them said "whoa guys". The force was clearly necessary. They were LA cops too, this **** happens in predominantly white areas, where the officers are afraid of minorities, based on what they heard from the media. But these were cops who probably would have done the same to a white guy or a mexican.

 

[Gyp Rosetti]

He was on PCP.. a powerful drug that makes the victim pretty much feel like they are invincible. They don't feel pain, and the amount of testoserone and other hormones triggered over powers the victim. They'll fight back even if they would be incapacitated under normal circumstances. Too put it briefly, homeboy was hardly affected for more than a few seconds by 2 simultaneous tasers.

Don't question the cops, you can get away with 2 cops acting like jack asses... but there were 5 or 6 liscenced and trained individuals repsonsible for this, and not one of them said "whoa guys". The force was clearly necessary. They were LA cops too, this **** happens in predominantly white areas, where the officers are afraid of minorities, based on what they heard from the media. But these were cops who probably would have done the same to a white guy or a mexican.

I'm confused. Spell out the racial hierarchy for me.

 

[Hopper]

He was on PCP..

Well, actually, no, but what you said was otherwise right probably:

"King's toxicology results tested negative for PCP."

 

[The-Joker]

Well, actually, no, but what you said was otherwise right probably:

"King's toxicology results tested negative for PCP."

He was on something... like I said. He took two tasers and didn't make it to the ground.

 

[Hopper]

there were 5 or 6 liscenced and trained individuals repsonsible for this, and not one of them said "whoa guys". The force was clearly necessary.

What really gits me is that those cops ended up doin 3 years in the pen, all when they were clearly right.

 

[Scat]

I lived in SoCal and worked in L.A. when the riots broke out. It got me 4 days off work... paid. I'd like to thank all of the outraged blacks and Mr. King for giving me paid vacation days.

 

[YB85]

I'm still trying to wrap my mind around Crispus Attucks and how he was part of such a motley rabble of saucy boys, negros and molattoes, Irish teagues and outlandish jack tarrs, and probably got what he deserved. The rebel rouser.

 

[Gyp Rosetti]

MLK Jr. too.

 

[Hopper]

I lived in SoCal and worked in L.A. when the riots broke out. It got me 4 days off work... paid. I'd like to thank all of the outraged blacks and Mr. King for giving me paid vacation days.

Don't go thankin Rodney, eh, Marcus? If he had his way, ya woulda lost that 4th day, at least:

"On May 1, 1992, the third day of the L.A. riots, King appeared in public before television news cameras to appeal for peace, asking:

“ People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along? Can we get along? Can we stop making it, making it horrible for the older people and the kids?...It’s just not right. It’s not right. It’s not, it’s not going to change anything. We’ll, we’ll get our justice....Please, we can get along here. We all can get along. I mean, we’re all stuck here for a while. Let’s try to work it out. Let’s try to beat it. Let’s try to beat it. Let’s try to work it out."