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Kiss me now, You're beatiful, For these days are truly the last.
I had a dream that my friend had a
strong-bad pop up book,
it was the book of my dreams.
Kiss me now, You're beatiful, For these days are truly the last.
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Written by: Lurch
As for your friend, that sucks, but use some common sense, you don't "accidently" bump into a cop in a riot squad. Hell I wouldn't even go near a cop in a riot squad if I wasn't on their side. If you've got nothing to do with it, you should be somewhere else. You don't just say 'don't worry guys! i'm not with them, just passing through' and push your way past.
I have no pity for stupid people.
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Written by: Lurch
So your basing your hatred for your police chief on an incident that took place over 20 years ago?
I stand by my statement: I have no pity for stupid people.
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Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]
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Written by: Lurch
Obviously you have little to no knowledge of the police other than from the 'innocent' victim point of view.
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Written by: ravehead
so what did the LAPD put the rodney king beating down to??
Let's relight this forum
Written by: DuncWritten by: ravehead
so what did the LAPD put the rodney king beating down to??
Weren't they actually saving him from a new wave of African Killer Bees
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"First the verdict, then the trial," to paraphrase Alice in Wonderland.
The verdict in this case was decided a year ago when the videotape was aired. The only remaining question was: What will the sentences be?
But trials are held for a reason — not just to settle controversial questions, but to be absolutely sure about questions that seem incontrovertible. As Roger Parloff has put it:
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People's everyday judgments are quick and cruel. A criminal trial is designed to ensure that a more deliberate and well-considered decision-making process will be employed.
Although politicians, journalists, and social activists didn't want to be bothered by doubts, the videotape wasn't due process, it wasn't a trial, and it wasn't conclusive evidence of anything. The trial was necessary to go beyond what everyone saw on television.
The tape lasted 81 seconds, but not one person in a thousand saw more than a few seconds of the tape. Viewers didn't see Rodney King attacking the policemen, unfazed by a stun gun; they didn't see the policemen stop swinging their sticks the moment he decided to surrender.
Even if you saw the whole 81 seconds, it couldn't show you everything. A videotape can't show what happened before and after, it can't show you what is outside the range of the camera — for instance, who might have been hiding behind the car. It couldn't show the 100-mph car chase that threatened the lives of the passengers in Rodney King's car, the policemen, and innocent bystanders on the street. And it didn't show that the two passengers surrendered immediately — and so weren't struck by the policemen.
When the jurors announced their verdict at the end of the trial, the circus began. Almost every two-bit politician and social commentator — liberal and conservative alike — denounced the verdict as an injustice. People whose entire knowledge of the events consisted of 5 seconds of videotape and some press gossip sat in judgment on the jurors who sat through weeks of testimony and evidence.
How do you explain the jurors' surprising verdict? The obvious explanation is that they knew facts about the case that we didn't. But if you're unwilling to accept that idea, your only recourse is to call them racists. Or else you have to blame the change of venue, the defense attorneys who played upon the jurors' fear of crime, or the idea that the jurors watched the videotape too many times and became "desensitized" to the violence.
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