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elements-9453	Kim, Soyeon	Alternative Truths: The Construction Of Narratives In The Rodney King Trial	2016	14	.pdf	application/pdf	10324	466	59	Yet, the video of King’s beating in 1992 was the first time that the problem of po- lice brutality appeared on the national radar, though many black people contend that this problem of police brutality existed long before 1992 and that the Rodney King case was only the first time it was caught on tape.7 Thus, the local and national outrage at the verdict was unsurprising: the video “clearly” showed that the beating was a case of police brutality, that excessive force was used against Rod- ney King, and that King consequently suffered a multitude of injuries—and yet, all four policemen in the Rodney King case were not convicted. Thus, rather than a whole that represented one thing—i.e., the police brutally beating Rodney King— the video became a series of distinct images and events, from the police’s perceived signs of aggression from King, to the police making the reasoned decision to contain this threat, to the strikes with the batons themselves.28 These still images made King appear more active than in the video, and therefore gave the jurors an illusion of move- ment and power to King, which they were quick to believe due to their ideology.	cache/elements-9453.pdf	txt/elements-9453.txt