Please define "capping" an unarmed Teenager then? (Or any unarmed Citizen for that matter?)
I said from what I had heard, they would have been justified in capping the creep.
Key word being from what you Heard , what exactly is it that you heard, And who from? Are you privy to some Information the rest of us aren't?
I also understand that the tape was edited before release, much as the rodney king tape had been edited, so it didn't show king getting back up on his feet after he was hit with two tasers, and lunging at the cops.
You understand this from who? And If it was "edited" how are you to determine that it was Edited by the guy that took the video and not the "news stations"? From what I saw yesterday I saw the Video from beginning when the camera guy had some of it pointing at the ground (trying to position himself) all the way until the Kid was in the Cop car, It didn't appear to be edited to me. But then again, IF it was, how are you to know "WHO" did the editing? You are going based on Hearsay, You yourself have admitted as much as not even seeing the tape in question.
Of course, I think LA should be given back to the mexicans, so that the liberals out there could really experience some Napolenic justice.
I disagree with you there also, but that's for another thread! (Post under the immigration threads for this debate!) LOL
Simple fact, therefore the tape was edited.
The only time you don't see edited tape is when something islive, then I would be careful about belieivng that also.
TV stations no longer if they ever did have a reason to broadcast the truth, they only broadcast what they perceive the truth to be.
TV News is a rating race and if it bleeds it is going to be out there and if it shows the power structure in a bad light it is going to lead faster.
Dispite OJ I still believe in a jury of twelve over an eye of one (BTW I would have voted to aquit OJ because of the way the Police handled the blood evidence, violated basic rules of evidence). So we must see how the justice system plays this out before we start rioting in the streets.