>>>>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.

Yep. They looted from the Koreans, Vietnamese, Cubans, and most anyone else who was successful at the time.

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