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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
The death of Rodney King? RIP, age 47. A reluctant celebrity and a troubled guy at times, but someone who I found to be a quietly compelling voice for tolerance.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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Pakar Ilusi Inner circle 5777 Posts |
Regardless...
RIP Rodney.
"Dreams aren't a matter of Chance but a matter of Choice." -DC-
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts |
Twenty years ago he was the voice of reason in the midst of madness. RIP Rodney King.
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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts |
Whether he was a good man or a bad man I don't know; but he asked the simplest, most important, and touching question of the century. Thanks for reminding us, Rodney. RIP.
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
Yes, thank you for drunk driving then not pulling over and resisting arrest motivating a riot and destroyed propery and lives and it was all worth it to hear 'cant we all get along?'. Sorry you drowned but your life is an example how one should live.
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
I'm with you on the driving, but as far as motivating a riot, there's a reason the riot happened Shortly after the trial, not the King beating.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts |
The reason for the riot was because the officers who clearly brutalized and beat King while he lay helpless on the ground were acquitted. It had nothing to do with the fact that King was pulled over on suspicion of DUI.
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
Yeah I know. They had a reason and needed an excuse. When I drove through a less violent part of the riot the folks moved out of the way as I sped up. I went to get my wife who was on the wrong side of a bunch of dumb teen criminals chanting, for some reason, "free Rodney King!". Figuring that a white adult would impress them I walked up and shouted "you won! Rodney King was set free!". The kids cheered and wandered off happy on theiir victory over 'the man'.
Rodney seemed like a regular guy beyond that lil problem he ran into. |
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
And now the secret of how to get a 90's era Hyundai over 100 mph has been lost forever.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
That wasn't much of a beating, it was more of a visual thing. Those cops lacked good ol rural Georgia behind kicking training.
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Woland Special user 680 Posts |
King was not pulled over on "suspicion." He was driving at nearly 100 miles an hour through residential neighborhoods, and when he was finally stopped, he got out of his car and assaulted the police.
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
Woland you have to ignore all that.
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Woland Special user 680 Posts |
Thanks, Santa. But I am surprised at how easily aficionados of the "innocence project" and other efforts to overturn felony convictions overlook the plain and simple fact that the police officers were acquitted by a jury of their peers after a fair trial.
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
When they say stay down I vote stay down.
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
We have the LAPD card trick to remember him by; Four Clubs Beat a King
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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Mr. Mystoffelees Inner circle I haven't changed anyone's opinion in 3623 Posts |
So, back to the future- how did he manage to end up on the bottom of the pool?
Also known, when doing rope magic, as "Cordini"
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Cliffg37 Inner circle Long Beach, CA 2491 Posts |
Uh guys... I lived through that riot. I don't think it is material to be made fun of.
For those of you who have never lived through... 1. Watching random fires set a mile or two from your house and not get put out... 2. Seeing all stores and gas stations closed and wondering if you will have enough to get by... 3. Watching information on the news about fire fighters getting shot dead... 4. Seeing Los Angeles as a ghost town after curfew... 5. Hearing sirens at all hours and not knowing where when or what... 6. Living in fear of evacuation and having no where to evacuate too... 7. Having a cousin toatlly unaware of what was happening get yanked off his motorcycle and get beaten sustaining permanent injuries to his body and one eye... 8. Watching a building I volenteered in get looted and burned on the news.... If I wanted to spend more time I could probably go on. Please don't make fun of what for me and thousands of inocent other people was a really lousy situation. In reality I personally lost nothing more than a few days of work. Not so for some ohters.
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Woland Special user 680 Posts |
It'll all be properly investigated.
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Sandra Gardea, King's next-door neighbor said that around 3 a.m., she heard music and someone "really crying, like really deep emotions. ... Like tired or sad, you know?" |
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts |
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On 2012-06-18 07:30, Woland wrote: Whatever is wrong with the "innocence projects" whose sole purpose is to obtain justice for those who were wrongfully convicted? And what does that have to do with the King case? And I am surprised that people forget that two of the officers were, in fact, sentenced to prison for 32 months. That's a plain and simple fact as well. Quote:
After the riots, the United States Department of Justice reinstated the investigation and obtained an indictment of violations of federal civil rights against the four officers in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. The federal trial focused more on the evidence as to the training of officers instead of just relying on the videotape of the incident. On March 9 of the 1993 trial, King took the witness stand and described to the jury the events as he remembered them.[31] The jury found Officer Laurence Powell and Sergeant Stacey Koon guilty, and they were subsequently sentenced to 32 months in prison, while Timothy Wind and Theodore Briseño were acquitted of all charges. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King......officers |
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gdw Inner circle 4884 Posts |
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On 2012-06-18 07:30, Woland wrote: That says a LOT more about what gets passed as a "fair" trial than it does anything else.
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