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The Rodney King case was a close case. You had to give the cops a lot of the benefit of the doubt after they started beating him and kept beating him. The video looked bad, but if you watched it in its entirety, and believed the cops as to why they kept beating, and looked at it in slow motion, where Rodney kept trying to get up, you could see a jury not finding that there was guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

This case is one where there is innocence beyond a reasonable doubt. It should never have been brought in the first place, it is a case where the defendant is objectively innocent in a nation where objectivity no longer exists. The feds may try to go after Zimmerman after the state fails, but they will end up looking just as stupid as De la Rearenda.

The Rodney King case was a close case. You had to give the cops a lot of the benefit of the doubt after they started beating him and kept beating him. The video looked bad, but if you watched it in its entirety, and believed the cops as to why they kept beating, and looked at it in slow motion, where Rodney kept trying to get up, you could see a jury not finding that there was guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

IIRC, the Simi Valley jury was blamed for what happened...right before the famous riots. It's morbid of me, and I pray good people are not hurt, but a riot after an innocent verdict will be very instructive to the US population.

Your comment is actually the point I was trying to make. Massad Ayoub, a professional witness in these kinds of cases, pointed out in an article I once read that if you see the whole tape, and analyze it carefully, they did just what you say - tried to keep him from getting up. They were afraid if he did that he might seriously injure them all with his bare hands (he was a big guy and they thought he was on PCP).

That, and he pointed out that they used their batons in the only way that they were taught by their department - as a club. In his analysis of it, in a certain sense, the LAPD failed their officers by not training them in more sophisticated means of using the baton.

They got screwed by the Feds for doing what they were trained to do. My point is that the government is, and is going to, prosecute GZ for political reasons, until they get the result they want. His life is ruined, no matter the outcome of this particular trial. Our whole Constitutional and criminal just system is supposed to prevent just this kind of miscarriage of justice, which is what is particularly enraging about this case.