I bet that no one here saw the 13 seconds that the national media cut from that video.
The beating started after Rodney King jumped up and lunged for Powell's throat, I have that 13 seconds.
A woman called the Rush show and described seeing those first 13 seconds on television in Europe, which frankly was a little hard to believe, but I eventually got it recorded off the VCR from some late night show somewhere and I now have it.
post it for us id loved to see it
>”I bet that no one here saw the 13 seconds that the national media cut from that video.”<
It wasn’t until the night of the riots that I saw the part that showed Rodney King lunging towards the police (I don’t recall the station, but it was on cable). This, of course, was after I’d seen the beating video (with that part suppressed) hundreds of times.
My thought was, “You mean to tell me that this has been on the tape all along and only now you’re showing it to us!” I figure what happened was that once the riots started, and people were being killed in the streets, somebody at the network decided that it was time to try to cool things off a bit.
Only then did they show the part that tends to support the police (or at least proves that their response wasn’t unprovoked — I believe some of the police were at fault, and should have been severely disciplined for using excessive force, but not sent to prison). I may have seen it again a couple more times that night but don’t recall ever seeing it again after the riots ended.
[If you or others have copies of this part, I hope you’ll put it on YouTube. So far all I see there is the anti-police version.]
It’s sometimes hard to imagine just how low the mainstream media will stoop in promoting their political agenda. To have repeatedly shown the beating part without showing the lunging part fundamentally distorted the story.
I know about the missing portion of the Rdoney King tape.
One more, of many reasons, why I am totally fed up with State-run media.