Posted on 03/02/2009 10:44:23 PM PST by Chet 99
At first glance, VH1'a Sober House, like its predecessor, Celebrity Rehab, appears to be exploitative reality TV at it's worst -- stars hitting their bottoms and relapsing, going on drama-fueled drug binges.
But there are moments on Sober House that are not only real and touching, they are even cathartic. In the most recent episode with Rodney King, the moment is downright historic. In this clip King revisits the site of his infamous beating. He forgives the officers who beat him and prays for the people who died during the riots. More than a decade later, Los Angeles is still healing from this incident. Hopefully this is one more step in our own rehab, one more step towards recovery for the city.
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Okay-Who freakin’ cares?
Can’t we all just get along?
Now we can “all just get along”, with our lives.
Not anymore.
If anyone can find the first few seconds before the beating starts, when King jumps up and goes for that cops throat please ping me.
I have it on video tape but don’t have the means yet to put it on my computer.
He must have a sentencing hearing coming up soon for something or the other.
I’m a law and order guy.
Try and run from the cops, unsafe speeds through streets
and you deserve a beat down if you then dont cooperate.
Its a shame he couldnt obey the words ‘stay down’.
Its also a shame that our cops are supposed to perform
like robots with no emotion. Its an almost impossible
request to ask cops to deal with trash and not have some
element(anger) rub off on them.
Hard to believe anything associated with Rodney King is either of those things.
Is this before or after he got out of the substance abuse clinic? or both?
The Police were in the right.
I lived near the LA Police Academy during that time.
The Police should not have been effected by that mess.
King was wrong.
Had the King incident occured 5 years earlier, he would have been shot to death. He’s fortunate to be alive.
This wasn’t about a beatdown. He hadn’t been searched, threw off four guys who were trying to cuff him, got off the ground and charged Larry Powell, and kept trying to get up. If he’d stayed put, as he ultimately did, it would have ended as it ultimately did. Even the Federal jury who convicted Powell and Koon stated it started as a legitimate use of force against a resisting suspect.
I saw the footage of this (My SIL watches the show) and it irritated me. A friend was one of those killed in the riots that followed. If King had done what he was told, my friend would still be alive.
Rodney, you worthless dork, stuff it!
I’m from L.A. go away.
I’m just stating what I believe without recounting
that story. There are too many cheeseheads on these forums.
Sayonara
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