[quote=zk][quote=svelte]This is not a clear cut case.
Rodney King, with the beating caught on tape, that was clear cut.
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I wouldn’t call the Rodney King case clear cut at all. The beating was caught on tape, but not what led up to it. King throwing two officers at a time off his back and charging them. A strong, enraged, violent man on the attack. That wasn’t shown on the tape.[/quote]
I think everyone in King’s situation would have reacted the same way. The difference is that most of us probably would not have survived the beating. When you’re beat into submission and down in a prone position and the beating continued then your survival instinct is going to kick in and that is either to fight or to run. And in order to do either of that one will need to get off of that prone position. And of course that’s just give the cops more ammunition to dish out more punishment.
