How Did Rodney King Cause Police Brutality

A man afraid, clueless on what to do. A police man following him down the road at a high speed like chase like a dog chasing a cat. The man stops, and a beating goes down. Police brutality has been an ongoing problem since before the 1960s. Since the beginning of this kind of brutality, it has caused too many deaths and beatings to innocent and non-innocent people. Evidence of a beating wasn't to be captured till the video camera, which was invented in the 19320s-30s or once the camera was invented in 1839. The cameras brought the known evidential to life with the evidence providing that some policemen were unkind to their suspects like what happened to Rodney King in 1981 that caused society to realize there was a problem, some police were

A man who has seen what the law can do because he was once convicted: “King was 25 and on parole after a robbery conviction in March 1991” (“Rodney King Dead at 47”). Rodney king has had multiple runs into the law. Rodney wasn't as wise as he was before the incident because what he had lived was nothing compared to what he had felt during the incident of his beating. “ ‘The trouble that (people) see me in is a part of my life that I'm working on,’ he said in 2011. ‘I'll always have an issue when it comes to alcohol. My dad was an alcoholic. The addiction part is in my blood’ " (“Rodney King Dead at 47”). Rodney King’s childhood was dealing with his father. He doesn't want to be like him and receives the help needed to grant himself that support of success by going to counseling/rehab. As Rodney King worked towards success he had to go through the path of not being

King was involved in a high speed chase down the highway in California. Rodney King was going at the speed required but as he went at the same pace for awhile it felt slower. In an interview in 2011, he recalled that “he had been drinking and was headed home from a friend's house when he saw a police car following him and panicked, thinking he would be sent back to prison. So he attempted to flee” (“Rodney King Dead at 47”). In an interview Rodney King said that he, “looked for a public place to stop. ‘I saw all those apartments over there, so I said, 'I'm gonna stop right there ... 'If it goes down, somebody will see it' ” (“Rodney King Dead at 47”). Wanted to be helped with evidence. the Evidence he came out with was from an innocent trespasser who lived in the apartments he had stopped at. how had taped the incident. Rodney King Said: “Suddenly i was being hit with multiple baton blows to every party of my body”(King, 45). The pain Rodney King went through was terrible. Hurt and nearly beaten to death he survived more scared than