2007-07-15 11:01:40 · 19 answers · asked by NBA Man 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
Lawyer questioning a female LA County Sherriff who was testifying for the prosecution of the officers charged with the beating:
Lawyer: do you feel that Mr King was a danger?
Sherriff: No, he had been subdued
Lawyer: Then why did you have your gun out?
Silence
2007-07-15 11:08:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 7⤋
Hummmmmmmmmmm what a question this many years later.
First of all, not one deserves to be beaten - however, had Mr. King bothered to calm down, nothing would have gotten out of hand in the first place.
Did the police go a little far? I wasn't there, and you can not truly see clearly enough from a video what was going on and what was being said.
I do know that when they tell you to do something you do it and ask why later, but you don't stand there and keep asking why, what is going on, how come.... If only he would have just done what he was told to do.
But to always blame the police is not right either, you are not in that profession, you do NOT put your life on the line day in and day out, so for us to try and judge a situation such as this is what is unfair.
Police today do not have the luxury they did 50 years ago when the towns were smaller, the people easier to get along with and there was not the drug abuse there is now. They are fearful of just pulling someone over for a traffic violation, some have been shot for nothing more than that, prior to finding out if they would get a ticket.
It is a cruel, mean world full of people who feel everyone else is wrong but themselves. Wake up people, start owning up for your mistakes, and let the police do their job.
2007-07-15 11:47:48 · answer #2 · answered by ♥ ♥Be Happi♥ ♥ 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
If Rodney King was a white man on as much drugs as he was when he was resisting arrest, probably so. I'm not saying that what the police did was right, but when you have a man that size and strength (I don't know any women out there that are that strong) you would have to have more than one cop restrain him.
Now they would just use a tazar or rubber bullets (I don't think the cops were using that back in 1994). They would also have a police camera mounted on their patrol cars with audio so you can get the story from both sides, something I guess they didn't have back then either.
2007-07-15 11:10:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
White women are not 7 ft tall 300 pounds. Rodney King towered over the officers. He was huge.
On other occassions, women will face discrimination. Everyone is discriminated against sometimes.
2007-07-15 11:12:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
If any suspect, under arrest, and partially handcuffed, pulls free from me, I am going to make sure that the suspect gets taken into custody before he can harm someone with that handcuff.
Rodney King is 6'2" he weighed over 250lbs at the time of his arrest, not too many women that big, white, black, purple or whatever, and he was DUI. Combine that with an open handcuff that can tear out your throat, and with his behavior, I find no problem with getting him subdued and in custody as quickly as possible.
I think it is interesting to note that he had a warrant out for armed robbery and another for burglary at the time of his arrest, plus he has been arrested over 100 times since his "beating."
You should look for a better hero/martyr.
2007-07-15 11:10:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 10⤊ 2⤋
I would have beat his *** too in those circumstances.
Rodney King is a bad example of what a black man should be, and so are you, if you think he got treated bad because he is black.
Stop being a hater.
2007-07-15 13:31:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Hate breads hate sir, you question is breading Hate. Maybe you should find other ways of working things out in your life. Sports is not one of them, you should take up polictics instead of griping.
Do you live in that city, do you live in CA?
I live in Texas and pregant girl was walking in the high school halls back in the day at Desoto high school. She was punched in the stomach from two black men because of that.
I lived in CA and had my mother not sent me to Texas, I would have joined a gang. Days that I would walk into my friends house and under her brothers bed and hers, was every gun you could think of.
Sucked to be black that day, then few months later it sucked to be white that day. Best of luck and get into politic so that we can make change. We could just keep eatting the crap that comes out of the mouth of the politicians that are in charge now? I no im not going to,
2007-07-15 11:09:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
No! The Police treat white and black people different.
2007-07-15 19:03:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The police were certainly guilty of brutality, but the news never covered the 15 minute high speed chase through town Mr. King led them on before he was caught. He's not innocent in this. It was a bad scene on both sides.
2007-07-15 11:06:37 · answer #9 · answered by nursesr4evr 7 · 10⤊ 3⤋
Who knows but then did what followed afterwards justice? How many died in the riot following and how many people had their property damaged and stolen for an act that they didn't commit? Where was the justice in that?! Many of them were mom and pop stores!So no more crying over what happened to him, civil justice was given.
2007-07-15 11:09:19 · answer #10 · answered by Brianne 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
With all the videos of police brutality when was the last time you saw a white woman being beaten. Cops prefer to sexually assault white women or let them out of the charges for sex. But they will rough up a white man if they get the chance. So my answer is no.
2007-07-15 12:45:40 · answer #11 · answered by tmilestc 4 · 1⤊ 6⤋