White cops would make it a far bigger story. Still - one reason Rodney King's beating was powerful in the early 1990s was that video was still a novelty to most people. People couldn't forget what they saw. Now - Americans forget everything after it falls out of media object permanence spotlight. The public is numb even to a man savagely beaten to death by the police. The tired, old tropes like he was "muscular" or he was "high on drugs" couldn't be used. The pigs murdered him because they wanted to and they could.
White cops would make it a far bigger story. Still - one reason Rodney King's beating was powerful in the early 1990s was that video was still a novelty to most people. People couldn't forget what they saw. Now - Americans forget everything after it falls out of media object permanence spotlight. The public is numb even to a man savagely beaten to death by the police. The tired, old tropes like he was "muscular" or he was "high on drugs" couldn't be used. The pigs murdered him because they wanted to and they could.