Rodney King Police Brutality

“The beating of Rodney King became the lead story for several days on the major networks as well, the most explicit and shocking news footage of police brutality ever to be seen on television” (Skolnick and Fyfe 3). Excessive force ends with a major injury, fracture or in extreme cases death. Rodney King was one of the cases that opened the public eyes to this others brutality. There was no way to hide the brutality as it was an unjustified beating of one person versus many. There are many cases where police officers shoot because they suspect the person had a gun when they reached for an unidentified object. One of those cases was Keith McLeod, Reisterstown, MD, who was shot fatally by an officer who claimed to have seen McLeod reaching for a handgun around his backpack. Like many times before that wasn’t true as there wasn’t a gun on him and Cases like this only end with speculation of the officer of an imaginary gun killing or injuring a victim. …show more content…
“On the early evening of Dec. 27, 2013, Lillo and other police officers from the Bayonne Police Department went to an address in Bayonne to execute a Sussex County arrest warrant” (“Bayonne police officer admits using excessive force”). He admitted that he struck the subject of the warrant in the head with a flashlight while the individual was handcuffed and not resisting arrest, which resulted in bodily injury. The excessive force charge to which Lillo pleaded guilty carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. But it is disconsolate that a charge of falsifying records that he is also guilty of carries double the length of time in prison than the excessive force charge. When the punishment of killing a life or injuring someone in hate is punished as something of less importance the community knows that there is something