:39:02
Maybe we should've.
:39:04
The irony is
that most of the stores...
:39:06
destroyed during the riots
were owned by black people.
:39:08
That's stupid, though.
Why trash your own neighborhood?
:39:11
Well, that's my point.
It's an irrational act.
:39:14
It's like an expression
of rage...
:39:16
by people who feel neglected
and turned away by the system.
:39:20
It's like we had in Watts
or the riots in Chicago in '68.
:39:25
I don't buy that.
:39:27
Calling a riot an irrational
expression of rage.
:39:29
That's such a cop-out.
It's opportunism at its worst.
:39:32
It's people grabbing
any excuse they can find...
:39:34
to go and loot a store,
nothing more.
:39:36
The fact that these people
ripped off the stores...
:39:38
in their own communities,
all that reflects...
:39:40
is that they have no respect
for the law at all...
:39:43
and certainly no concept
of community...
:39:46
or civic responsibility.
:39:47
Now wait a minute.
:39:48
White people commit crimes
against white people, too.
:39:51
Yeah, but they're not offing
each other in record numbers.
:39:54
Look at the statistics,
for Christ's sake.
:39:56
One in every three
black males...
:39:58
is in some phase
of the correctional system.
:40:01
Is that a coincidence...
:40:02
or do these people have
a racial commitment to crime?
:40:05
Not only that.
They're proud of it.
:40:07
Maybe it says something
about prejudice...
:40:09
in the judicial system.
:40:10
If you want to talk
about criminal statistics...
:40:12
take a look at the social
inequalities that produce them.
:40:16
That's exactly what I hate.
:40:18
You're taking one thing
and calling it something else...
:40:21
and just alleviating
the responsibility...
:40:23
these people have
for their own actions.
:40:25
It's like saying,
it's not a riot, it's rage.
:40:28
It's not crime, it's poverty.
That's just nonsense.
:40:31
It's exactly what happened
in this trial...
:40:33
because the media
twisted things around...
:40:35
so people got all focused
on these cops...
:40:37
and whether or not they were
going to get convicted...
:40:39
and whether Rodney King's
civil rights had been violated.
:40:42
Everybody lost sight
of old Rodney King himself.
:40:44
The guy's a multiple felon
by his own admission.
:40:47
He's high as a goddamn kite...
:40:49
driving 120 miles an hour
down the highway.
:40:51
He gets pulled over
by a bunch of cops...
:40:53
and he attacks them.
:40:55
He attacked police officers.
:40:56
That's the bottom line,
and he walked.
:40:58
And there's some yahoo there
with a video camera...