"If there hadn't been a video there would have never been a case. In those days, you might have claimed excessive force but there would have been no way to prove it."
And to think that the person who took the video offered it first to the LAPD and they didn't want it. He then gave it to KTLA -- and the rest is history.
The first thing Stacy Koon either said or thought when he heard there was a video of the incident was “good, we can use it for training purposes.” What most of the public saw was highly edited. The first jury saw the same thing and knew the officers did nothing wrong.