en ordered on him to quiet him down, King gets up and a second volt is ordered and King recovers from that and gets up again. While this is going on George Holliday wakes up from all the noise. He films the incident; 10 seconds are blurred because he was trying to get a better view. King proceeds to charge at Officer Lawrence Powell. Powell hits King with a baton; three other officers kicked, and beat King with their nightsticks. 19 seconds were caught on tape, mostly of King lying on the ground trying to get up while the officers were beating on him.When the media got a hold of the story. Everything got blown out of proportion. Political leaders around the U.S. got involved for support of Rodney King. When the cops were acquitted of all charges except for being guilty of civil rights violations. The city was outraged, and a riot broke out, flames and broken glass from looters filled the city streets, 54 dead an more than 2,000 were injured, and the city was left torn apart (Leibovich 1-3).This would be the beginning of more police brutality attacks around the nation. Another major case dealing with excessive police brutality and the cruel injustice one man would have to endure is Abner Louima, one of many who was brutally beaten in a cruel and inhumane way and living proof of the horror of police brutality. Abner Louima was a 30-year-old Haitian immigrant with no criminal record. It was August 9, 1997 around 3:30 a.m. in front of a nightclub in Brooklyn, New York. He was arrested after police broke up a scuffle. On the way to the 70th Precinct station house officers, Charles Schwarz, Thomas Wiese, and Justin Volpe punched, kicked and beat Louima with a police radio. Arriving at the station at 4:00 a.m. the officers took him to the bathroom and sodomized Loumia with a wooden stick and then ramming the stick into his mouth, breaking teeth in the process. This three-hour attack on Louima left him with a punctured colon, bla...
