[An American in Turkiye]

If you are referring to the Rodney King beating, then yes, you are correct. King led the police on a high speed chase, was hopped up on drugs, and refused arrest.

But on this video, the guy was just standing there. And once the cops had him under CONTROL, they continued to beat on him, which goes against all training tactics they are taught.

This episode only adds to the mistrust of cops, which leads to the mistrust of authority, which in turn leads to the mistrust of the government, which ultimately leads to the mistrust of what we are doing in the middle east.

I wear my uniform with pride. Unfortunately, the cops that beat a 64 year old man into a bloody pulp, then slammed a reporter into a car, do not.

[TheBattman]

I also notice that there are cuts to the footage. What was shown in those cuts (if anything)?

If the guy was not resisting arrest, then why did it take so many cops who apparently were working hard/straining to restrain the man? Especially the cop in the shorts -

The more I watch the video, the more doubt I have about this being justified, but I still would like to know what happened before the video started, in the cuts, and afterwards.

It appears that the producer got slammed partially because he got too close to the "action". He was almost right on the pile when the cop shoved him back to the car and slammed him (cop was out of line,he should have handled that a LOT better).