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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Nationality: American Type: Public Servant Born: August 30, 1926 |
People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.