1. It didn't really get anywhere, and then the Rodney King incident happened, and people thought,

2. The use of Batons by police has been heavily scrutinized, starting first with the use of the instrument during the Civil Rights era in the 1960’s and of course the Rodney King Case.

3. One of the most infamous cases of police Brutality happened to Rodney King on March 3, 1991 in Los Angeles.Four white police officers beat this unarmed black man in public, and a bystander recorded it, resulting in 81 seconds of video footage.

4. In Castigating the verdicts in the Reginald Denny case, Barnes insisted that "if this had been white guys dragging out blacks, they would have thrown the book at them." Gee, that's right, Fred, just like with the Simi Valley verdicts in the Rodney King case