Quotes about rodney (15 Quotes)



    If you are a black man in America and get stopped by the police, make sure you have a video camera. Don't rely on some passerby to film the beating. Rodney King was just lucky.





    We're sending a message out to Chief Bratton that we've gotten rid of former chief Daryl Gates because he did not take the Rodney King beating -- police abuse -- serious and if he Bratton doesn't take this serious, we'll get rid of you.

    Rodney King was about police abuse, O. J. was about police incompetence, and Rampart is about police corruption. That's a pretty grim picture for the LAPD, ... What Rodney King taught us is you can't ignore the problems and hope they will go away.




    I had a wonderful experience recently in anticipation of the second Rodney King verdict where I decided to do a letter to the community about how I really felt. It's times such as that, that I feel that I'm connecting. And there are other times I'm shocked by what I see and what I discover. And when I'm shocked by it, I think, God, I'm losing it, that I don't really understand what's going on out there.

    The way to Jesus is not by Cambridge and Oxford, Glasgow, Edinburgh, London, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Socrates, Plato, Shakespeare or the poets It is over an old-fashioned hill called Calvary. (Rodney

    No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head.





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