In article >,
blake murphy > wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:39:34 +0000, Gorio wrote:

> > I love it when the cops get sued because of some meth head losing it.
> > Yeah, Rodney King beating was the wrong thing to do.

> so it's o.k. for the cops to beat the shit out of an unarmed man because
> he's a drug user? really?

20/20 hindsight is a wonderful thing. After the fact, it turned out
that both Oscar Grant and Rodney King were unarmed. Neither cooperated
to let the police determine whether they had deadly weapons. When they
both refused to keep their hands away from their bodies, the police
claimed that they assumed they could be reaching for a deadly weapon.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA