Police brutality is any use of excessive force when dealing with civilians (Danilia, 2015). There is no way that this case would not be considered police brutality because the officers did not have any reason to hit Rodney 56 times with their police batons and kicked him six times. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation hate crime could be considered “criminal offense against someone’s race, religion, disability, ethnic origin or sexual orientation” (FBI, 2015). The Rodney King beating has caused a lot of problems with the relationship between police and the public because of what the police did to Mr. King, there was a lot of riots occurred in Los Angeles. There are two big reason why people decided to start riots in Los Angeles, the first reason everyone saw the news and the news stationed aired the video of the attack and it got them mad. The second reason is the verdict from the jury came out and they did not like the officers were found not
Police brutality is any use of excessive force when dealing with civilians (Danilia, 2015). There is no way that this case would not be considered police brutality because the officers did not have any reason to hit Rodney 56 times with their police batons and kicked him six times. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation hate crime could be considered “criminal offense against someone’s race, religion, disability, ethnic origin or sexual orientation” (FBI, 2015). The Rodney King beating has caused a lot of problems with the relationship between police and the public because of what the police did to Mr. King, there was a lot of riots occurred in Los Angeles. There are two big reason why people decided to start riots in Los Angeles, the first reason everyone saw the news and the news stationed aired the video of the attack and it got them mad. The second reason is the verdict from the jury came out and they did not like the officers were found not