The cops beat the shit out of King. You think that the riot that followed justifies Trump's riot?
You've got you be kidding. 28 years have gone by since the Rodney King fiasco, and YOU STILL are bamboozled by KTLA's doctored tape, and YOU STILL cling to the 100% discredited FALSE claim of police brutality ? YOU STILL, even now, don't know what happened there ?
Wow. There is no limit to the ignorance of information-deprived, brainwashed liberal victims of liberal OMISSION media. In this case, it was OMISSION of much of tape of the King arrest, taking it totally out of context, and deliberately PORTRAYING it a police brutality. The KTLA tape, Rodney King video, deliberately doctored out King's massive resistance, leaving in only the last few seconds, where cops had exhausted all previous means, then becoming forced to use force on King to subdue him. (maybe you would have suggested offering him a lollipop ?)
Wow. 28 years gone by, and libs still don't know the Rodney King, KTLA-TV super Fake News episode. Well, uninformed one, in a nutshell, after King leading cops on a high-speedchase of up to 115 MPH and 85 MRH on residential streets (miraculous that no one was killed), King's 2 buddies in the car with him, Freddie Helms and Bryant Allen, surrendered peacefully to the police, were handcuffed without resistance, and put in the police car. While they sat still and quietly there, angel dust Rodney did about everything you could think of that could be put in the category of
resisting arrest, and then some. After being told to lie on the ground (as his buddies had done), he ignored commands, he danced around, he babbled to himself, he smiled/laughed, wiggled his ass at the female officer (Melanie Singer), waved to the police helicopter overhead. Then he began to meander about, crouching and kneeling, and just about everything but lying down, as the cop instructed.
After enough of this lunacy, the senior officer present, Sergeant Stacey Koon ordered 4 officers to subdue King. They attempted, and the 6 foot 4, 250 pound King, blasted with PCP (his friends later conceded & testified), and having superhuman strength, and impervious to pain from the drug, was able to shake the officers off. Koon shot King with a taser dart which had little effect on the "dusted" Rodney. Rodney then leaped up and
lunged at Officer Powell, which earned him his first whack from a police baton (billy club). Koon again tasered King but the heavily drugged Rodney shook it off. Having tried everything else, the cops were down to their next-to last option, the batons.
So now after
fighting with the cops, resisting arrest to the hilt, they went with the by-the-book procedure for subduing aggressive suspects, short of lethal action. 3 cops started hitting King with batons, as
King kept on fighting against the cops, and
getting back up off the ground. If/when King moved and moved to get up, the cops wacked him. It was ONLY this part of the whole confrontation (previously riddled with resisting arrest fighting), that KTLA allowed viewers to see, repeated on an endless loop on TV, the tape deliberately edited/FAKED to suggest police brutality, instead of the actual event, with King lunging at the officers, a violent, belligerent suspect.
Nearly everyone who saw the whole taping, agreed the cops did what they had to do, only because of King's strong, massive, and illegal resistance. But t
hat isn't what the public saw. They saw the KTLA-edited version, which was clearly designed to suggest racism and police brutality (with the first 13 seconds of the videotape deliberately cut out).
In summary, 2 juries in 2 trials, said it wasn't racism, the police, and Rodney King himself said it wasn't racism. The media's "conclusion" ? Racism. And of the resulting riots ? 54 dead, thousands of injuries, a Billion $ damages. There you have it, 28 years late. Better late than never.
For more information see Chapter 8 in the book
Mugged, by Ann Coulter, entitled RODNEY KING - THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE EDIT IN HISTORY. (with 40 footnote sources backing it up, in addition to the WHOLE
UNEDITED videotape of the incident)
After this, no excuse to not know what happened.
Everything the cops did was proper. Everything King (and KTLA-TV) did was IMproper.
As for your weird question about the riots, there is no such thing as
"Trump's riot", and are you still unaware of OMISSION media CNN's doctored video that OMITTED Trump's caution to be
"PEACEFUL" ? Information-deprived on that too ?