Posted AT 4:34 AM EDT on 16/11/07
The tragic amateur video tells the whole story - or does it?
ROD MICKLEBURGH
From Friday's Globe and Mail
VANCOUVER Is a video the whole truth and nothing but the truth?In the case of Rodney King, a jury decided that it was not, and four members of the L.A. Police Department were acquitted of beating Mr. King, despite vivid amateur video footage showing police raining blow after blow on the helpless black man.
Now, we have the taser shot heard round the world.
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