: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...
:41:00
who turned it on
halfway through...
:41:01
so that all we see
is them hitting him.
:41:03
You got Powell and Koon
cracking him with billy clubs...
:41:07
and Briseno's kicking him
in the back of the skull...
:41:09
so it looks severe, you know?
:41:11
People are going,
"Oh, this poor guy."
:41:12
This poor guy
who attacked four cops...
:41:14
and those cops
end up on the stand...
:41:16
defending themselves for using
standard textbook procedures.
:41:20
I don't think the tapes
showed that at all.
:41:22
You didn't think so?
And you're an authority?
:41:25
Murray, what do you think?
:41:29
I did think the police used
their clubs rather excessively.
:41:33
Who are you
to say what's excessive?
:41:34
I think it was
totally appropriate.
:41:36
They're in a better position
to make that call than you are.
:41:39
We, as society, grant cops
a certain amount of authority...
:41:43
to make those calls,
because we acknowledge...
:41:45
that their job is difficult
and dangerous.
:41:47
Very few people respect that
and respect that authority.
:41:51
Look who's talking about
respect--Mr. Junior KKK.
:41:53
What?
:41:56
You want to go to college?
Learn to listen.
:41:58
I didn't say I respect the laws.
I acknowledge a cop's authority.