http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/la_riot/article/0,28804,1614117_1614084_1614831,00.html
In the article The L.A. Riots: 15 years after Rodney King the author describes what happened during that April night in 1992. How Rodney King did try to run away in a high speed chase, but as soon as he was stopped how viciously the police officers beat him down. What he did was a crime, that is true. The cops said that he was "resisting arrest" and then continued to beat him down all while George Holliday was videotaping this horrible event.
I believe that yes Rodney did commit a crime and should not have ran from the cops, but if this would have been a white man, he would have been cuffed and taken down to the station. But because this was an African American male, he was taken out of his car and beat down by several cops with their batons. This just goes to show how much racism there was back then. I believe today we are not AS bad as were back then but there are still people who judge based off of skin color.
