Tarnished_Badges

Tarnished Badges The skin of the man lying on the ground was dark by nature, his original color made darker by the impact of the repeated blows from four nightsticks, Four nightsticks held by four sets of hands with color of a lighter degree. A crowd of about a dozen or so stood by casually, their nightsticks idle as they watched the scene unfold, a scene that would end with the final score of nightsticks 5, victim 0. This particular scene was not an occurance from the 1960s, however much it might resemble an event from that era. Nor was it a vigilante incident from the frontier days of the wild and untamed west. The scene describe above is an event from the late twentieth centruy, Los Angeles, California in March of 1991. This scene, a scene that a passerby happened to capture while out experimenting with his new video camera, ws to replayed countless times across the screens of America'a television sets during the coming weeks. This scene, which illustrated the assault of California resident Rodney King by four Los Angeles police officers, scene, four, organization, nightsticks, rome, police, known, augustus, vigilante, sets, roman, protect, one, officers, los, law, force, followed, event, established, enforcement, emperors, days, concept, color, city, california, angeles, america'a, ws, world, word, within, wild, whiel, west