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Race riot (well kind of)
Shape D.:
--- Quote from: Zakk on April 15, 2005, 04:25:43 pm ---Even the Rodney King incident was just a 'wardrobe/baton malfunction' to the police :o
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whoa hold on there. Have you ever seen footage of the rodney king beating? That was by far the most horrific thing I have seen in my life. Not because it was just violent, I've seen tons of violence in movies video games, because it was real. the cops that beat rodney king are horrible people and should have been fired immediatly. how they ever got away with it is beyond me. Every once in a while I will see something that will make me completely disgusted with humanity, the first time I saw that was one of those times.
ChadTower:
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whoa hold on there. Have you ever seen footage of the rodney king beating? That was by far the most horrific thing I have seen in my life. Not because it was just violent, I've seen tons of violence in movies video games, because it was real. the cops that beat rodney king are horrible people and should have been fired immediatly. how they ever got away with it is beyond me. Every once in a while I will see something that will make me completely disgusted with humanity, the first time I saw that was one of those times.
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They got away with it because he had enough PCP in his system to be legally considered a lethal danger. I'm not saying it was right, they could have subdued him with less force, but pain and strength were off the charts for him that day. PCP is a messy thing. The media never really talked about that part of it.
Chris:
--- Quote from: Shape D. on April 15, 2005, 04:37:02 pm ---
--- Quote from: Zakk on April 15, 2005, 04:25:43 pm ---Even the Rodney King incident was just a 'wardrobe/baton malfunction' to the police :o
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whoa hold on there. Have you ever seen footage of the rodney king beating? That was by far the most horrific thing I have seen in my life. Not because it was just violent, I've seen tons of violence in movies video games, because it was real. the cops that beat rodney king are horrible people and should have been fired immediatly. how they ever got away with it is beyond me. Every once in a while I will see something that will make me completely disgusted with humanity, the first time I saw that was one of those times.
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I think it may have been topped by the Reginald Denny beating in the riots to follow, though...
Shape D.:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on April 15, 2005, 04:48:01 pm ---They got away with it because he had enough PCP in his system to be legally considered a lethal danger. I'm not saying it was right, they could have subdued him with less force, but pain and strength were off the charts for him that day. PCP is a messy thing. The media never really talked about that part of it.
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I knew about the pcp, Although I saw the video before I knew about it. but they deffinatley crossed the line.
ChadTower:
The beating of the truck driver was far worse, agreed. He wasn't a criminal being arrested, he was just a guy doing his job in the wrong place at the wrong time.