When it comes to the terms use of force, unnecessary force, and brutality, police and criminologist draw conceptual distinctions among those three terms (). Of those three distinctions, which term did Rodney King rightfully belong to? Although police officers are required to use force at times, to what extent was Rodney morally obligated to have four different cops beat him? Imagine if the tables were turned. Would white people still agree that police acted properly if they saw four black cops beating a white individual and the police get away with their actions? It is hard to determine why or how incidents like this happen, but when there is two different views trying to be spoken, one side of the story will always be right and the other side
