Rodney King dead at 47

Dox47 · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 2:32 am Post subject:

To understand the acquittal, you really need to watch the entire video, not just the edited part that was shown repeatedly on the news. It was still a bad incident, but the complete video gives it a bit more context and makes it clearer how a jury could arrive at an acquittal when the officers went on trial. IMHO if anyone should have been held accountable for both the beating and the subsequent riots, it was the LAPD leadership who ran the organization like a paramilitary force and didn't teach the officers how to do anything with their PR-24s other than hit people with them and tolerated years of abusive practices until they became ingrained in the culture of the force.
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