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Originally Posted by Katipan
I think the public was willing to believe the worse of law enforcement after Rodney King.
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That's the irony of all of this. The historic action of the LAPD towards blacks in LA and the rage behind what happened to Lathsha Harlins, Rodney King, and Eula Mae Love in the black community led to the freeing of a man who turned his back on that community, gave nothing back to it, and most importantly of all, was as overwhelmingly guilty as almost any defendant in history.
All that capital that Johnnie Cochran built up in fighting for righteous causes was wasted in defending a guilty man in the most unethical, puerile manner possible, which undercut all of the work he had done before.
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"When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”--Abraham Lincoln
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