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Hello, I am looking for someone to write an essay on Police Brutality and Racial Profiling: Looking Back At Rodney King Beating. It needs to be at least 2250 words.Stories of brutal treatment at the h
Hello, I am looking for someone to write an essay on Police Brutality and Racial Profiling: Looking Back At Rodney King Beating. It needs to be at least 2250 words.
Stories of brutal treatment at the hands of police come up from time to time, but these stories are often "killed" or dismissed for lack of evidence. African-Americans claims of racial profiling and racial discrimination are also written off. However, some cases of police brutality and racial profiling come to the attention of the media and are sensationalized into events of national concern. The 1991 Rodney King beating by Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers is one such example. A videotape showing four white police officers beating up an African-American became a sensational story and even sparked the 1992 Los Angeles Riots when an all-white jury decided to acquit the officers involved.
In March 1991, Rodney King and two of his friends were speeding on a freeway in an inebriated condition when Officers Tim and Melanie Singer spotted them. When asked to stop, King refused and continued driving into a residential area. Tim Singer put up a chase and also radioed for help. The chase continued, and when King stopped, 27 officers were present, including 21 from the LAPD. According to one of his friends, King was ordered to place his hands outside the car window, which he did. When asked to get out, the seatbelt prevented him from doing so, and an officer yanked him out. After this, King was shot twice with tasers, hit repeatedly on the head and other parts with a baton, kicked, spat on, handcuffed, and left until an ambulance took him to the hospital. The examining doctors reported extensive body damage — an eye socket and cheekbone were shattered, a concussion, nine skull fractures, severe facial damage, one broken leg, and injuries to both knees.
Police reports suggested that King was initially caught driving 110-115 miles per hour (in a vehicle whose maximum speed was found to be 97 miles/hour), that he caused an officer to fall, and that he tried to reach for a weapon. . .
