[tacticalogic]

Don't be. You can be libertarian and still realize that a guy hopped up on PCP who led the cops on a high speed chase and refused to surrender even after being hit by a stun gun, etc., was not the victim of a rights violation.

Rodney King is far from the poster boy for the Libertarian party.

IIRC, King didn't have any drugs in his system, he was just drunk. That being said, I can understand the cops beating the hell out of him, but in all fairness I don't think it was their place to do it. The other motorists in the oncoming lane should have gotten first crack at him.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Perhaps but I recall seeing the video and he sure as heck ACTED like a guy hopped up on PCP.

Which is why the cops beat him.

Ironically if one of them had just shot him they'd have probably been in a lot less trouble.

[GladesGuru]

"The other motorists in the oncoming lane should have gotten first crack at him."

Great line - funny and so very true.

Instead of a platform and opportunity for the Jackson/Sharpton ilk, there well could have been a number of deaths of innocent people thanks to a drunken Rodney King behind a wheel.