Ridiculousnessss

In the novel Twilight, a man named Rudy Salas tells of his story during the LA Riots.  This man was beaten so harshly that he has to now wear a hearing aid because the police men destroyed his eardrums.  This is ridiculous! What kind of police action is this? Oh I know because the man was a “minority”?? What is minority anyways?? Everyone who is not blonde haired and blue eyed?? And to think this is still happening today, everyday!

We also read, an interview with Sergeant Duke who speaks of how his officer Powell did not know how to use the baton correctly?? Sergeant Duke was acquitted on the trial of Rodney King.  Oh cool,  the police men are free to go because they didn’t know howwww to use their baton corrrectly? Wow.That’s just great!

Josie Morales was an actual witness of the beating between Rodney and the grusome officers.  She watched the beating in horror right next to George Holiday (the guy recording the video) and explains how wrong, how cruel the beating was.  The novel really made me think more in depth about how serious being racist, prejudice can really get, and the outcomes of the hate. 

From Twighlight:

After this showing of the tape in the Washington production, Smith

performed the character of Josie Morales, a woman who witnessed King's beating:

I was scheduled to testify/.. .because I had a lot to say/and during

the trial I kept in touch with the/prosecutor,/Terry White,/... I

said,

 "Well, are you going to call me [to the witness stand] or 128 Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism

not? And he says, .. . "I don't think we're going to be using

you—/And I faxed him a letter/and I told him that those officers

were going to be acquitted/and one by one I explained these

things to him in this letter/and I told him, "If you do not put

witnesses/if you don't put one resident and testify to say what

they saw,"/And I told him in the letter/that those officers were

going to be acquitted./But I really believe that he was dead set/

on that video/and that the video would tell all,/but, you see, the

video doesn't show you where those officers went/and assaulted
Rodney King at the beginning