“But they didn’t have to beat me this bad. I don’t know what I did to be beat up.” Rodney King, March 3, 1991. Police brutality has been a long lasting problem in the United States since at least 1903 when police Captain Williams of the New York Police Departmen coined the phrase, “There is more law at the end of a policeman’s nightstick than in a decision of the Supreme Court.” In the 1920’s …showed first 75 words of 2687 total…

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