I think that the O.J. jury didn’t see nor hear any evidence. They decided long before the trial ended, likely shortly after it started, that guilty or not, they would not convict a fellow black man. Although I have no idea why the two whites and the one Hispanic went along.
Rodney King, career criminal, had it coming. Got it delivered and under 30-minutes. Then after the acquittals of the officers that were charged with beating him, the animals residing in the L.A. Zoo rioted for two days, burned down their own city, looted, killed, and maimed innocents. Rodney went on to become a millionaire but never became an honest citizen. Just the richest criminal in the hood. He continued to break the law, get caught, but because of the riots, never tried or held in custody. Finally he died by drowning assisted by his cocaine, pop and alcohol intake. What a civil rights hero!
Mr. Kelly should have been in a mental hospital, against his will if need be. What he was doing on the streets is beyond me. There are thousands of mentally ill people living on the street that should be locked away. For that I blame his parents. For his death, I blame the cops. Did he have it coming? Probably not. Did the cops go overboard? Probably so. But I don’t have any inkling of what the black folks go through, seeing how my community doesn’t as a rule or a point of pride, raise whole generations of young men to be criminals and therefore the the targets of law enforcement, or as you would call them, “pigs”.
No, “I” wouldn’t call the police pigs. Though yes, I do have a mistrust of them these days. Furthermore, I don’t like the violent urban black culture any more than you do but this pervasive culture of aggressive, violent police crosses color boundaries, I don’t agree with you that anybody “has it coming” when the thing that comes is vigilante justice on the part of law enforcement. They should be there to enforce the law, detain and bring in criminals, it’s up to the court, the people, to deliver the punishment.
And the mentally ill are on the streets because of lack of resources available to help them and laws that prevent the involuntary hospitalization of non-minors.