Woah, yeah. That full version I don't see King charging anyone. I see it opening with a baton to the face and down he goes.

that was the charge, before the camera is on, he kept getting up and lunging at the cops. if you were told to stay down. and you kept charging. the first part of the tape you could see he is running towards the cops. that's when they beat him down. he was on drugs etc....

 

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Thanh Lam

TIME: 3:15 p.m. LOCATION: Alondra Boulevard, east of Willowbrook Avenue, Compton STATUS: Open case, Sheriff's Homicide Division: (323) 890-5500

The riot did not keep Monterey Park resident Lam, a 25-year-old Vietnamese-American, from trying to make deliveries for his family's small grocery. He was eastbound on Alondra Boulevard, in his 1989 Toyota truck with a camper shell, and stopped at a red light at Willowbrook. A late-1970s or early-1980s blue Cadillac pulled up, and a front-seat passenger, described as an African-American man in his early 20s, yelled a racial slur and opened fire, hitting Lam four times, three times in the chest and once in the back.
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~oliver/soc220/Lectures220/AfricanAmericans/LA%20Riot%201992%20Deaths.htm

when people riot, they use it as excuse to commit murder against innocent people. what does this guy has to do with rondey king? in the AA community he was guilt because he wasn't black.

 

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what is fd posting about? i haven't read any of them.

IF they don't find Zimmerman guilty of some crime, People in the ghetto will riot and blame everyone else for their problems.

 

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He got out of the car and took 2 steps before he caught a baton in the face. Its one thing to use force to subdue a person but every cop was taking a turn like he was a pinata.
I find it appalling that you can even try to justify the actions of those officers.

Personally I would have been more disappointed if LA didnt riot.

 

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and he tried comparing it to the LA riots.
by saying the cops where justified in that beating.

LA riots where more than justified because there was a huge injustice, which the feds later retried those cops on federal charges and won.

 

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On March 3, 1991, Rodney King and two passengers were driving west on the Foothill Freeway (I-210) through the Lake View Terrace neighborhood of Los Angeles. The California Highway Patrol (CHP) attempted to initiate a traffic stop. A high-speed pursuit ensued with speeds estimated at up to 115 mph first over freeways and then through residential neighborhoods. When King came to a stop, CHP Officer Timothy Singer and his wife, CHP Officer Melanie Singer, ordered the occupants under arrest.[7]

The tape was roughly ten minutes long. While the case was presented to the court, clips of the incident were not released to the public.[8]

In a later interview, King, who was on parole from prison on a robbery conviction and who had past convictions for assault, battery and robbery,[9][10] said that, being on parole, he feared apprehension and being returned to prison for parole violations.

The footage of King being beaten by police while lying on the ground became a focus for media attention and a rallying point for activists in Los Angeles and around the United States. Coverage was extensive during the initial two weeks after the incident: the Los Angeles Times published forty-three articles about the incident,[11] the New York Times published seventeen articles,[12] and the Chicago Tribune published eleven articles.[13] Eight stories appeared on ABC News, including a sixty-minute special on Primetime Live.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots

 

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Sith you have reading comprehension problems and easily brainwashed. Rodney King is guilty as hell. hell even after the riots. he was arrested many times over for the same drunken driving and other problems.

 

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how did that work out for him.