My nephew is a 29 year cop said this about Ferguson.

[brewens]

39. Like the King beating. Even if every word the cops said initially was true, it should have

stopped much sooner. They had no justification to keep pounding on him once he was down and clearly helpless. If all that video had shown was one cop clubbing him a couple of times, we probably would never have seen it. That wouldn't mean it was justified of course, but we wouldn't be able to make much of a judgement from just the video in that case.

The one thing about the Rodney King video that amazed me was that the media was able to convince so many that there was this secret part that we weren't being shown. That was thoroghly debunked on an episode of Crossfire one day. They had a certified copy from the court and a sworn affidavit from the guy that shot it that it was in fact the whole film he shot. It starts with King already on the ground being beaten.

I can't really remember who the conservatives on the show that day were but it was really an eat shit moment! It seems like it was Sununu. Kinsley I think was on the left and the conservatives were surrounded. The basically had to admit that they understood that was all there was. Sure, we were almost never shown the whole video, it was all the same, and it went on for far too long for most networks to want to show the whole thing everytime. Even if King had gotten out of the car with an assault rifle and fired shots, once down and incapacitated, it should have stopped and he should have been cuffed and stuffed.

I'd be willing to bet that all of us can easily find a right-winger that will swear there is a secret part of the video where King gets out of the car and menaces the cops. Some may even claim to have seen it but it never existed.