Commentary: An assault on notions of right and wrong
by Virginia Heffernan, Los Angeles Times
Jul 09, 2018
3 minutes
To anyone who had eyes to see and a half-working moral compass in 1991, the Handycam video of Rodney King's beating by four Los Angeles Police Department cops showed brutality, sadism and torture.
The primitive violence insulted the heart.
But then came patronizing attorneys, media exploitation of racism, weird language and bureaucratic euphemisms. In the Simi Valley courtroom where the case against the police who beat King was heard, evil was relentlessly described as the height of professionalism.
Jurors came to doubt their gut
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