That’s an odd way to say “at least one time, twenty-five years ago.”
I heard he was scheduled to be on celebrity boxing.
Sounds like he
took a dive.
Are you sure about that? Or were they just overly brutal with drug addicts, petty criminals, and lowlifes? I don’t keep up but I never heard of any examples of decent citizens being targeted.
I think being “overly brutal” to anyone is, at the least, cause for concern. I don’t think any police officer has magical powers that will keep him from making a mistake or losing his/her temper at the wrong time if (s)he is already inclined to do so. If nothing else, the legal system really doesn’t need unnecessary excessive use of force complaints or prosecutorial problems.
I only knew about the beating, the following riots, and that he was on Celebrity Rehab. I never heard about all of the other legal problems he had.
I’m still shocked that he’s dead though.
After reading his rap sheet, all I can feel is relieved he died before he killed anyone.
I thought bodies floated when they were dead, or is that just after they start to decompose?
I agree and said so in my penultimate post. My previous post was specifically responding to the claim that…
He doesn’t, but that’s a debate for another thread.
Let me know when you’ve been a cop for a few years on a fugitive squad, made hundreds of violent felon arrests and fought with some of the most hateful, cop-hating scum Georgia has to offer in order to serve arrest warrants and bring criminals back to jail where they belong. Please include a picture of the feather you used to tickle them into submission. Then we’ll talk. :rolleyes:
Once is enough, considering she was sleeping at the time. Besides, it was more than once, if you read the same post I read.
This staff report addresses the factors related to sinking/floating bodies.
I get that. I still don’t think that there’s anything “just” (as in “only,” the same way you meant it) about being “just overly brutal” to anyone, even scumbags.
You don’t recall Crash, Rampart? So long as you define “decent” as “white” and “drug addicts, petty criminals, and lowlifes” as “all black and Hispanic youths,” then you’re pretty much right. The L.A.P.D. basically ran a police state in minority neighborhoods enforced with random brutality and frameups. As a bonus, some of were even running their own drug trafficking operations. The Rodney King trial revealed evidence of a faction of cops who engaged in beatings as a form of entertainment.
I perhaps need to take a vacation from this board, as the scumminess that comes out of you people is sometimes barely even understandable.
Anyway, I remember that shitty trial and the ensuing riots that engulfed my neighborhood like it was yesterday. Bad times. Ah well.
Dammit, I forgot the best one: have you heard the LAPD’s new motto? “We’ll treat you like a King.”
The King is dead. Long die the King.
Not the water apparently.
I do remember the Crash unit corruption but as I say I didn’t follow it closely. If they did regularly target innocent minorities, I capitulate the point. Regardless, painting them as worse doesn’t make King a good person. He was a violent, repeat offending criminal and a real danger to society.
He was found at the “bottom of a swimming pool.” I’m curious why he wasn’t floating. Did someone chain something heavy to him?
BBC is mentioning that his fiancee was one of the jurors in his civil case. That’s interesting too.
I think it had something to do with the fact he was a drain on society.