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Originally Posted by hulkrogan
I think people, especially us from a very white Canada, look at isolated incidents such as the Rodney King riots and wonder what kind of people would riot because a convicted piece of scum got beaten when he was resisting arrest. People need to realize there are very good things like that happen, and a very good reason people are quick to pull the race card in incidents like this. The US is a racist, segregated place. In many places police discrimination is a big problem. While this incident might be nothing of the sort, when you've spent your life encountering people treating you differently because of your skin colour, you question everything like this when it happens. Of course riots aren't an appropriate response, but really this is a problem created by whites that is perhaps propogated by blacks, somewhat understandably. I really don't think a white person from Canada can really fully understand this though. How many of us have grown up in an all white neighbourhood when the other side of the freeway is a completely black, poor neighbourhood? It's just a different world in the US in that respect.
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To comment on the Rodney King case. It's been shown that police can make very poor decisions after a high speed case. The stress and the adrenaline can be too much for some officers and when the case comes to a halt they don't use their training and instead react on adrenaline.