I never feel that bad for criminals who are tazed, but the video speaks volumes. Career criminal or not, the Police continued beating him after he could no longer fight back. It is their fault not Rodney's.
Except that he was so high on PCP that tazing and being hit with a club didn't phase him.
And that was the problem. The police followed procedure. They only resorted to clubs when the first four steps , which included verbal commands, trying to physically restrain him, and tazing- failed to work because he was so pumped up on PCP, and spending a few years in the prison weight room didn't help, either.
Did King state that? No. That came from the LAPD and no one else.
Well, yeah, I mean, Junkies are so reliable.
I'd take the word of LAPD officers who've dealt with hundreds of PCP addicts than the word of an admitted drug addict that he wasn't doing that that night.
Tell me, how many times would they need to hit you with a club after tazing you to bring you down. I'm a big guy, but I'd probably be done after the Tazer.. Definitely after the first hit.
King was still throwing cops around after being hit a dozen times.