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To: r9etb
Why do you keep bringing up Rodney King???????Screw the Rodney King video! I’m talking about the video in question where two male LEOs forcibly remove a young woman’s clothing while she is screaming and hand cuffed and your response is”I don’t have all the facts??!!”
126 posted on 02/04/2008 9:45:44 AM PST by 4yearlurker (We are the vehicles and God is the driver.)
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To: 4yearlurker
Why do you keep bringing up Rodney King???????Screw the Rodney King video! I’m talking about the video in question....

OK, one last time -- typing slowly so that you have time to calm your overheated temper and begin exercising your reason. I use the example because it's a good case study for why you should never judge a situation based solely on a videotape showing only a small portion of the actual situation, and without other supporting facts to explain what the video is showing.

The Rodney King video showed something that made the cops look pretty damned bad. All we saw, for weeks, was a group of cops beating the hell out of poor Rodney. My, my, but those cops were out of control. Except, it turned out that Mr. King's behavior was not remotely innocent -- when understood in context, the cops' actions made a great deal of sense. The problem was that CNN and the race pimps did not tell you the whole story.

Which brings us to this case. You've SEEN a video, which makes the cops look pretty bad. And you've got the lady's lawyer, speaking through a sympathetic reporter, giving you no real facts aside from that video. And that's it. You actually know almost nothing of what went on that night.

The point being: facts are important, and it's generally considered a good thing to have them before condemning folks for things.

134 posted on 02/04/2008 9:58:42 AM PST by r9etb
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