>>>>>>>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.
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>>>>>Yep. They looted from the Koreans, Vietnamese, Cubans, and most anyone else who was successful at the time.
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>>>>I can't remember where I read about this*, but apparently around the same time, there had been another case involving a Korean storekeeper shooting a black patron, with the storekeeper being vindicated, or something along those lines. So that when the verdict came back in the Rodney King case, the black community already had animosity toward the Asian storekeepers in their midst.
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>>>>* I think it was in this book: http://www.amazon.com/Presumption-Guilt-Arrest-Henry-America/dp/023010326X/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1328207272&sr=8-14
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>>>>Tamar
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>>>That justifies it.
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>>So that's how it all gets twisted today huh? Say something about how I don't like cops beating innocent people & you end up saying that means I support looters and killers..hehehe..never fails. yaawwwn.
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>Sure seems that way to me. Most any post that mentions police or government that you post or comment about immediately brands the police or government as the bad guys.

Right - and when the cops are beating, stealing, robbing, raping - then guess what - they ARE the bad guys! I've also said 100 times out here that I don't think most cops are like that plus I've said a zillion times I would never be able to do their job. I've never said I support looters and killers. Sounds to me like you think if the person is a police officer then their word is golden and they can do no wrong any anyone who says otherwise either supports murder and mayhem or is part of it.