>>>>It would be nice to actually go more than 48 hours without seeing something like this happening in Oakland.
>>>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bezz-6Q09ng
>>>>I understand that the police have a difficult task of trying to keep order - but this business where they keep attacking people with batons that are lying on the ground defenseless, then arresting anyone recording it is REALLY starting to get under my skin.
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>>>Maybe the derelicts should head back to their mom's basements or whereever else they may have crawled in from and quit trying freeload on the public.
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>>Right..and if they don't just violently attack them? Besides their mom's house was probably foreclosed.
>>Remember the riots in 1992? How did that start? It started because 4 cops were caught beating the crap out of someone, then were acquitted of any wrongdoing during the arrest (as big of a joke as O.J. verdict). If this stuff is still happening next summer there will probably be a repeat - you'd think the city officials and police dept would learn because that wasn't the first time that had happened either.
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>I remember the whole thing well. Rodney King was a small time crook who only became famous because of the cop beating and someone catching it on video camera. Blacks in L.A. had a long simmering resentment against cops and that video ignited it like a bomb. I watched the whole thing unfold on TV in a rented apartment in Denver, L.A. up in flames.

Yes Rodney King was a small time crook who became famous because a BUNCH of cops were caught beating him on camera. (As a side note - if you ever happen to see me being attacked by a 1/2 dozen cops - do me a favor and put down the damn camera and come help me..ha). Keep in mind that's not what started the riot - it's the fact they let these cops get away with it that ignited the riot. The racial tensions were (are) already high in L.A. and the long standing distrust and resentment against the cops finally got to the point where the people couldn't take it anymore. Kind of like attacking / arresting 400 peaceful Occupy protesters might cause for example....

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