Somebody wrote:

> >> He didn't sound like he was partying. Sounded like he was struggling.
> >
> > So he wasted his entire life, and then he started struggling ...
> > toward what goal? Achieving the perfect high?
>
> perhaps, it's hard to really know what's going on in someone else's head.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGALoQoxXrU

> Aren't the police trained to restrain-- even people that are high? Would
> you want one of your friends or relatives restrained the way Rodney King
> was?

That event occured at the dawn of the everyman video age. Cops are
much more careful now. The most exceptional aspect of the King
business was that it was caught on tape.