[quote=pri_dk][quote=zk]A hypothetical is exactly what that is. What you describe is not what happened in this case.
Passing judgement from a civil, air-conditioned office is exactly what you’re doing.[/quote]
The cops were convicted. Looks like I’m not the only one that “passed judgement.”
Oh…the convictions were wrong?
So the legal system is legitimate when it’s beating the crap out of someone on the street, but not when due process is applied in an air-conditioned courtroom?
But let’s get back to the “hypothetical.” Cuz you avoided an answer to my question:
What would you do?
56 baton blows and six kicks
From people trained in the use of force.
Fifty six baton blows.
So when was King supposed to think that the blows were going to stop?
After the first ten?
After the next twenty?
Not exactly “love taps.” Those cops were winding up for each swing!
Ten more blows…we are barely half way there…
“Oh yeah, sure the pain is excruciating, but I’m sure they’ll stop beating me. Probably sometime before I’m dead…”
Since you know the situation so well, the answer should be easy:
What would you have done?[/quote]
The first jury did NOT convict them. The second jury did — and that trial came about as a result of the riots. Blacks all across LA were threatening to riot again if the jury didn’t convict. You think that was a fair trial?
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“Four LAPD officers were later tried in a state court for the beating; three were acquitted and the jury failed to reach a verdict for the fourth. The announcement of the acquittals sparked the 1992 Los Angeles riots. A later federal trial for civil rights violations ended with two of the officers found guilty and sent to prison and the other two officers acquitted.”
