Note the two passengers that got out of the car and submitted were not struck. One claimed that he looked up in violation of the police’s orders and his face was pushed into dirt briefly, but that was it.
Of the 23 officers there, only 4 were indicted, and only 2 of those convicted. One of those was Stacey Koon (sp?). He was the sergeant on the scene. He administered – wait for it… ZERO blows. He was convicted because he didn’t control the situation. I’m going from memory a bit here…
Another interesting thing I learned from the report of the independent (highly LAPD critical) report: many of the officers at the beginning of that shift had just coincidentally attended a training session on baton use. Do you think that had an impact on their baton use? Not saying it’s right, but it’s interesting.
Another interesting point: at one point King reached around to the back of his waistband. As you know there have been *many* cases where an action like that would have result in him being fatally shot. So some restraint (hard as it may be for you to believe) was actually employed by the police.
King was on probation at the time, which is why he did not want to pull over. The officers almost certainly knew this, and that probably had an impact on their threat evaluation.
King did not submit. You put up a false narrative.
