That’s almost a gun control argument in its logic. That if people weren’t allowed to have guns, then nobody would get shot. But the reality is otherwise, so people need guns to defend themselves against violent criminals. And the police are part of this.
Did Rodney King deserve his beating? He did everything in his power to unnerve, frighten, and unbalance police while engaged in reckless endangerment of innocent people. By the time he was finally stopped, to me at least, it is no surprise that the police beat him.
Was it “unprofessional” of the police to do this? Yes and no. Legally, they shouldn’t have, but they had been pushed to their limits. And this happens far too often to too many officers to be ignored.
If you do something to a cop that looks threatening to him, even if it seems perfectly innocent to you, there is a good likelihood that he will react, because if he doesn’t react just once, when he needed to, he could very well be killed.
And what would have happened if the cop hadn’t reacted, and the old guy pulled a shotgun on him? Would there be real tears for the dead cop?
That’s almost a gun control argument in its logic.