Originally Posted by drewrob23

Neither Rodney King or the Jena 6 were any type of heroes in my book. The problem with both of those examples is that the police and the d.a. went far beyond what was needed. Now the fact that people made those situations race issues, does not suprise me. But alot of the blame can be put on the media. What confuses me about most people's gripes about the three men beaten is that some how speaking out against police brutality means that you are defending the criminals. Couldn't be farther from the truth. People are made at the media for showing the footage, but it's the media. People would have gone ballistic if the news didn't show the murdered officers picture every 5 minutes. Why the double-standard?