Accountability in the LAPD

I am the half sister of Rodney G. King. I heard on television that those 17 LAPD officers who stood around making no attempt to do anything but watch my brother get kicked, stomped and electrocuted could get off scot-free (May 11)!

OK, my question is this. What if I were somewhere and saw a group of people with whom I was affiliated kick, stomp and attempt to mutilate an individual? Would I be so quick to receive a pat on the back and then be sent home?

Less than a month ago I flew to Los Angeles to see my brother. Did I see him? No! What I saw was a paranoid, frightened and confused human being. Now I am back in Sacramento, and I still say that he was not the brother I used to go motorbike riding and fishing with. And what really hurts me is that now because of George Holliday’s video, all sorts of police brutality situations are becoming public. What about those human beings who were not fortunate enough to be videotaped, yet they were still unnecessarily beaten?

I sit and watch my brother’s cruel videotaped situation daily on the news. True, thank God, he is still living. But if not for that videotape, he would have been just another victim of a “locked-in justice” society!

I ask you, will police brutality be stopped--can it be? All I know is I want the brother back I had before March 3--but that will never be.

EVETTE KING

Sacramento