Title: "Gorillas in the midst" This essay is about the Rodney King case . In this paper I am defending King and accusing the cops of police brutality

"I felt beat up and like a crushed can. That's what I felt like, like a crushed can all over, and my spirits were down real low." These are the words from Rodney Glen King. Have you ever felt like that? Have you ever literally felt like a crushed can? Try to imagine 5 people giving 51 blows to your body as hard as they could using solid metal batons, kicking you at the same time while …showed first 75 words of 749 total…

…showed last 75 words of 749 total…with friends and was pulled over by the cops, and your dad didn't comply with the policemen, would he get hit with metal batons 51 times? What if all the roles were reversed in that situation? White man, black cops, and having the trial held in Harlem with all black jurors. Imagine a drunken white man, in a jaguar, in a suit, in the same position as Rodney Glen King. What do you think would happen?