I see where the assaultive, felonious, should-have-died-in-prison, worthless sack of night-stick-whupped monkey droppings held up as a shining (and probably accurate) example of the best a culture can produce has bitten the big one:
Couldn't let the moment pass without appropriate comment.
In Our Next Episode: Wonder if there's any chance we can get this sterling human a national holiday. I could use another three-day weekend, and it'll give the ghetto youths time to meditate, worship, and study his life for their own edification. All worthy projects, especially the three-day weekend thing.
Who is that?
ReplyDeleteAnd, ugh, if you reply, sometimes I may not see it because I don't get notified when there's a reply. FUhhhhh. I'll check back, of course...
SereneBabe, that's Rodney King, who may have deserved getting pulled over, but not getting the shit kicked out of him by a gang of uniforms. He stumbled along after his fifteen minutes with some drinking problems but was getting it together and had gotten a book out (with help or not, doesn't matter). Evidently he was calming down, and then suddenly he drowned in his swimming pool. I thought it sad news.
ReplyDeleteWell, pretty close. That's Rodney King, who engaged the police in a 115 MPH high speed pursuit, got most of a division involved in stopping his dumb ass, tried to fight, got his ass kicked and shocked, then refused to just give up and kept trying to get up off the ground, resulting in him getting the fuck beat out of himself.
ReplyDeleteHe doesn't look it in his polished up "Golly Gee, can't we all just get along" outfit, he is a 6'3, 300 lb mound of prison-buffed, drunken ghetto muscle who was not and never has been worth a cup of spit, and whose main function in life was and is up to his last day being an asshole, for for whom violent assaults, robbery, petty crime, resisting arrest and fighting with the police is a way of life ALL his life, which evaluation was completely agreed with by a jury who saw ALL the evidence, not some 30 second snippit out of the middle of it.
July 27, 1987: According to a complaint filed by his wife, King beat her while she was sleeping, then dragged her outside the house and beat her again. King was charged with battery and pleaded "no contest." He was placed on probation and ordered to obtain counseling. He never got the counseling.
November 3, 1989: King, brandishing a tire iron, ordered a convenience store clerk to empty the cash register. The clerk grabbed the tire iron, causing King to fall backwards and knock over a pie rack. King swung the rack at the clerk and fled the store with $200. King was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon, second-degree robbery, and intent to commit great bodily injury. In a plea agreement, King pleaded guilty to the robbery charge and the other charges were dropped. He was sentenced to two years in prison, but was paroled on December 27, 1990.
March 3, 1991: After being seen speeding on the 210 freeway by CHP officers, King led them on a chase at speeds estimated at up to 110 to 115 mph. When finally stopped, King refused requests to get into the prone position and appeared to charge one of the officers. He was beaten and arrested. King was charged with felony evading. Charges were later dropped.
May 11, 1991: King was pulled over for having an excessively tinted windshield. Although King was driving without a license and his car registration had expired, King was not charged.
May 28, 1991: King picked up a transvestite prostitute in Hollywood who happened to be under surveillance by LAPD officers. King and the prostitute were observed in an alley engaging in sexual activity. When the prostitute spotted the officers, King sped away, nearly hitting one of them. King later explained that he thought the vice officers were robbers trying to kill him. No charges were filed.
June 26, 1992: King's second wife reported to police that King had hit her and she feared for her life. King was handcuffed and taken to a police station, but his wife then decided against pressing charges.
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ReplyDeleteJuly 16, 1992: King was arrested at 1:40 A.M. for driving while intoxicated. No charges were filed.
August 21, 1993: King crashed into a wall near a downtown Los Angeles nightclub. He had a blood alcohol level of 0.19. King was charged with violating his parole and sent for sixty day to an alcohol treatment center. He was also convicted on the DUI charge and ordered to perform twenty days of community service.
May 21, 1995: King was arrested for DUI while on a trip to Pennsylvania. King failed field sobriety tests, but refused to submit to a blood test. He was tried and acquitted.
July 14, 1995: King got into an argument with his wife while he was driving, pulled off the freeway and ordered her out of the car. When she started to get out, King sped off, leaving her on the highway with a bruised arm. King was charged with assault with a deadly weapon (his car), reckless driving, spousal abuse, and hit-and-run. King was tried on all four charges, but found guilty only of hit-and-run driving.
March 3, 1999: King allegedly injured the sixteen-year-old girl that he had fathered out of wedlock when he was seventeen, as well as the girl's mother. King was arrested for injuring the woman, the girl, and for vandalizing property. King claimed that the incident was simply "a family misunderstanding."
September 29, 2001: King was arrested for indecent exposure and use of the hallucinogenic drug PCP.
Now, while Don would prefer that the blue crew just gets in there an "rassle" him, any cop who knows anything is going to stand back and keep fucking him up till he stops fighting. Speaking for myself, I have no slightest intention of taking so much as a hangnail to gently keep some piece of shit like that from insisting on getting his slats kicked in, 'cause that's what his life is all about. Drowning was too good for him.
You know. Tomayto, Tomahto.
What does the fact that he had "fathered" her "out of wedlock" have to do with anything?
ReplyDeleteTwo answers for that one...
ReplyDelete(1) Nothing at all, at least to me.
(2) Really? That's what you got out of that whole recitation?
I think that with a good back beat you can get a rap song outta all that.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I got out of that whole recitation, yes.
ReplyDeleteI understand why you need to see this only from the officers' safety point of view. If you were to recognize the injustices of the event, that would be saying "sometimes the officers' safety isn't the only priority" and you can't afford to do that.
"...that would be saying "sometimes the officers' safety isn't the only priority" and you can't afford to do that..."
ReplyDeleteIf you say that officer safety is higher priority than an innocent's, you're just wrong. If you're saying that officer safety is higher priority than the safety of some animal who's trying to harm him, you are 100% correct.
In fact, the damaged officers I've known usually got that way by getting between those two concepts.
In a couple of weeks, I'm going to go visit a friend of mine who was shot by a piece of shit. It paralyzed one side of him, and he's been in constant agonizing pain every single minute since that scumbag squeezed the trigger, because the shotgun pellets damaged nerves everywhere.
Unlike TV shootings, 15 years as a pain-pill addicted cripple (so far) is the reality. And I'll promise you that if for one single second I had a chance to stick a pistol in the ear of the fuck that shot him a half-hour before it happened when he was "just" killing his girlfriend, I'd have done it without a backward glance, and y'all could debate how many angels I should have got dancing on the head of a pin first at your leisure.
Yeah. I understand.
ReplyDelete"... evaluation was completely agreed with by a jury who saw ALL the evidence, not some 30 second snippit out of the middle of it. "
ReplyDeleteThe trial of the cops who beat Rodney King was not quite that simple, and is a good example of the early problems folk had with video analysis. In the Simi Valley trial, the prosecution thought the video was so bad that anybody would convict the cops of brutality. The defense recognized that it really hinged not on whether or not he was beaten, but on whether or not he was hit in the head -- which constitutes lethal force. Even though Mr. King had severe injuries to his face -- fractured mastoid, fractured pterygoid procsss, fractures sphenoid, chipped teeth, damaged facial nerve, etc. the defense claimed that the injuries to King's head occurred when he "fell down" and not due to the beating per se, and sure enough, the video was so dark that most of the blows could not be mapped to specific body locations. Thus, the prosecution could not prove that the cops hit him in the head from the video alone, and they made the mistake of thinking it would be enough. The cops were found not guilty. People who think it was because the people in Simi Valley are racist are wrong; people who think that it proves the cops didn't didn't use excessive force are also wrong.
In the federal trial, the prosecution did not rely on the video, but also got medical analyses of the head injuries that showed that Mr. King had likely been hit in the head with a baton and that the injuries were not characteristic of a fall. That constituted deadly force, and the cops were convicted in the federal trial.