If anyone can find it, post the first 11 seconds of the Rodney King video that the media cut which showed King attacking the cop, which started the beating.
Seeing him lunge at the cops throat before the response would have saved a lot of lives.
The networks cut the first part of the tape and looped the rest. King was struck ‘dozens’ of times.
Facts don’t matter to the black community who is hell bent on their own particular form of racism agaisnt white folks. Trial,after trial after trial we are seeing that it doesn’t matter what the facts are, all that matters if whatever the left demands, it gets- facts be damned.
At that moment that he lunged at the police; he could have been justifiably shot. The police used restraint and kept him alive and relatively healthy.
My Tagline was already in effect.
The first officer to contact Rodney King was a female officer. He used and abused her, triggering the male officers to lose their restraint. All in all, it was a controlled attempt to subdue a VERY DANGEROUS man.
In my opinion, it was the equivalent of figuring out how to make a live capture of a Gorilla (no race comp intended), or a Chimpanzee. These animals, and Mr King, were extraordinarily strong. The animals by nature.
Rodney was buffed up by workouts, and pumped up by adrenalin and Meth. He barely survived, BECAUSE OF the restraint of the Police. Twenty years previously, they would have just shot him dead, and maybe rightfully so.
The cost to the Police and Policing is not worth the relaxed police posture of 2024, that is for sure. We are in more danger from criminals now, than we have ever been, because of the profile of the Rodney King case and of course George Floyd.