King and Denny Beating Trials
According to the new math of our politically correct universe, two wrongs do make a right. Whether or not the actions of the Los Angeles police officers who arrested Rodney King were consistent with their academy training, no human being should be savagely beaten. There must be more humane ways to detain even the most hostile suspect.
More disturbing, however, is the fact that King was never cited for violating parole, endangering the lives of his passengers and the pursuing officers at speeds in excess of 80 m.p.h., operating a motor vehicle while under the influence or resisting arrest--any of which would put a non-celebrity behind bars.
Most disturbing of all is the prevailing sentiment that the young men who dragged a truck driver out of his vehicle and fractured his skull with a brick on live television should be forgiven their assault and battery in the name of racial justice.
The need to “heal a city” notwithstanding, it appears that, to politically correct congressional representatives, city council members and mayors, an accumulation of enough wrongs (police brutality, racially motivated violence against people and property, Reagan trickle-down economics, etc.) makes a potentially hideous miscarriage of justice right.
JOHN HOOVER
Fullerton
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