I remember telling a high-school aged son of one of my sister’s lib friends that Rodney King was a crack-addled fool who was really lucky he didn’t get shot. He’d clearly not been exposed to that possibility in school.
My recollection was that there was a female officer being confronted by him at the beginning, and had her gun drawn to take action, but then men arrived and took him down.
He is lucky to be alive. If he had charged her, he would have been one more statistic, the Left would trot out every time the topic of police abuse of power was brought up.
As it is, he became to poster boy for the “evil police” meme. It’s still a falsehood accepted to this day.
He never submitted, still trying to stand up for minutes after being initially taken down.
Put the arms behind the back and submit! No, he kept trying to use his hands and knees to get up on fours in order to stand up.
As others said, his other rider(s), was arrested without incident.
That’s something the evil police officer meme was never able to explain. If the officers were so evil, why didn’t they rough up the other occupant of the car?