Rodney King Dead

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This isn’t the time or place for arguments or debates.

Eternal rest grant to him O Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon him.

Lord, I ask that you receive into Your Kingdom the soul of Rodney King. Amen.
 
Some posts here are more assaults on Rodney King. It’s so disturbing but also telling.
 
anp1215 said:
This isn’t the time or place for arguments or debates.

Eternal rest grant to him O Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon him.

Lord, I ask that you receive into Your Kingdom the soul of Rodney King. Amen.
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Amen
 
VeritasLuxMea said:
Who was it that said he was on PCP? :confused::confused::confused:

He was under the influence of alcohol, not PCP.

The officers claimed that he was on PCP but the tests were negative.

You know what I remember the most about Rodney King?

What I remember most is THIS: youtube.com/watch?v=1sONfxPCTU0

R.I.P. Mr. King
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What’s the difference? The guy was still driving under some sort of influence. I have no remorse for anyone that gets in a vehicle and drives under the influence, none!
 
psr13 said:
While the cops may have gone overboard, if one resists arrest one should expect to get hurt. No matter what color one is.
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Forty-something unanswered blows on a man lying face down is just “overboard”? I’d say it’s overboard and over the edge of the blessed earth. Anyone who watches the video can see that after a blow or two, someone could have jumped on him and handcuffed his hands behind his back, making him controllable. End of story.
 
archangel04 said:
What’s the difference? The guy was still driving under some sort of influence. I have no remorse for anyone that gets in a vehicle and drives under the influence, none!
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The difference, as you put it, is huge. I’m not talking about the driving part of it (though there may be an effect there), but more with regards to the way he was beaten after the fact. PCP can make one like an enraged animal with* superhuman* strength, alcohol… not so much.

And drunk driving or not, it is not very Catholic behavior to beat someone to a pulp.
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PSR13:
While the cops may have gone overboard, if one resists arrest one should expect to get hurt. No matter what color one is.
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…but especially if one is black and living in L.A. in the 90’s. That’s why there was a riot. I’m not going to look at the unjust or even evil deeds of the rioters and say they happened for no reason. We all know darn well why that event happened.
 
What I have always found interesting about that entire thing was how the choices each person makes affects other people.

The choice to drink and drive.

The choice to give into fear and evade police instead of owning up to your mistakes/poor choices.

The choice to use excessive force. The choice to stand back and watch.

The choice to steal. The choice to destroy.

The choice to speak out against that destruction.

A chain of events were set in motion by his actions, yet it was not his choice that all those events occur. It is extremely interesting to me that it all began with that one choice to have an extra drink and get into a car and drive. He knew it was wrong, but probably figured nothing was going to happen. How often do human beings do that? Pretty often. Just makes you think about how the little things each of us do might effect others, or how events can just spiral.
 
CAROLOFTHEBELLS said:
A chain of events were set in motion by his actions, yet it was not his choice that all those events occur. It is extremely interesting to me that it all began with that one choice to have an extra drink and get into a car and drive. He knew it was wrong, but probably figured nothing was going to happen. How often do human beings do that? Pretty often. Just makes you think about how the little things each of us do might effect others, or how events can just spiral.
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That’s true to some extent. But of course, the chain of events leading to the riots stretches very far back, to before he was born. The acquittal of these policemen was the proverbial straw on the camel’s back, structural inequality began a long time before that.
 
VeritasLuxMea said:
The difference, as you put it, is huge. I’m not talking about the driving part of it (though there may be an effect there), but more with regards to the way he was beaten after the fact. PCP can make one like an enraged animal with* superhuman* strength, alcohol… not so much.

And drunk driving or not, it is not very Catholic behavior to beat someone to a pulp.

…but especially if one is black and living in L.A. in the 90’s. That’s why there was a riot. I’m not going to look at the unjust or even evil deeds of the rioters and say they happened for no reason. We all know darn well why that event happened.
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No, there was a riot because people were opportunists. It wasn’t only blacks rioting, so it wasn’t all about how terribly blacks were treated.
 
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