Posted on 04/28/2012 2:47:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
On tour promoting his new book, Rodney King, the Los Angeles man whose videotaped beating by Los Angeles police became a flashpoint for the 1992 LA riots, is often asked to put his ordeal into contemporary terms.
On the 20th anniversary of the riots, the name Mr. King often mentions is Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old Florida boy who was shot and killed on Feb. 26 by a suspicious neighborhood watch volunteer named George Zimmerman.
The police’s original decision to not charge Mr. Zimmerman with a crime again raised questions about the treatment of black men by police and the courts, questions that in 1992 exploded into looting, arson, and violence when the four officers charged with the beating were acquitted by a jury. Fifty-five people died.
“It's nothing for them to come along and just shoot you, put a bullet in you because they know that, hey, … he's a black guy,” Mr. King told NPR this week.” They think about it like it's nothing when a citizen go out there and kill an innocent child, like in this case of Trayvon Martin.”
There are of course several differences between the two events.
Mr. King, out of jail on parole, was driving drunk and evading cops before the beating began. Video of the beating was replayed for months. Trayvon, a high school student, was on his way to his father’s house in Sanford, Fla., after making a snack run when he was shot by Zimmerman after the two fought. No video exists, only testimony from Zimmerman and several witnesses.
What’s more, tensions between police and inner city Angelenos were higher in 1992 than they are today, thanks to new policing strategies and the professionalization of the force. Politically, America is different, having elected its first black president in 2008...
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NO_LIMIT_SHARPTON is calling for calm. Isn't that precious!?!
*You can’t keep killing black folks. We’re not going to allow it.”*
There’s a huge ‘killing blacks’ problem in this country but it’s not from ‘whites’ at all - and the racemongers know this.
according to the doj, “From 1976 to 2005 — “94% of black victims were killed by blacks “, that leaves 6% killed by other than black (that’s lumping asian, hispanic, white and other together as the 5%).
Conversely, 15% of white murder victims were killed by black perpetrators.
http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/homicide/race.cfm
the following clip from Hannity dates to 2006. Note uberliberal Comb’s advice to whitefolks to ‘just ignore that person’:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGv8PQr8Uo4
Four years and a lot of ‘ignoring’ later, the following clips highlight events that are becoming more and more commonplace, and which we are still conditioned to ‘ignore’ - thanks, Combs.:
2010 SEATTLE: young man held hostage, beaten and tortured by black gang:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRhaoWWKE-k
2011 SACRAMENTO: special needs woman repeatedly beaten for sport:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGV9vE7H7I0
Neither city could be described as having a large economically deprived populace as one might find in Detroit or Chicago, for instance. It’s almost guaranteed, however, that all perpetrators were brought up thru the anti-american, blame the white dude, liberal public “education” system.
Apparently blacks don't much care about their children being killed. They only care about who did it.
Why does Rodney King even have a book? What does he have to say other than “Can’t we all get along”?
If Crystal Mangum (ala Duke Lacrosse)can have a book then King’s is certainly no surprise.
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