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My opinion towards the footage of Rodney King was they are other ways to handle a criminal if they are trying to attack police officer. They should shoot them on the leg or somewhere on the body that they will not kill them, but do not beat them or kill them because of there different skin color because then you will be consider a racialism in peoples eyes. There are police officers that are not racialism and there are some but they are doing their job to protect us form criminal, so if they need to use excessive force then use it the right way by shooting them somewhere that they leave.

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