Justice unseen. (second Rodney King civil rights trial) (Editorial)

National Review | May 10, 1993 | Copyright

Perhaps justice was done in the second Rodney King trial. God knows. But what was seen to be done was not justice, but politics. To begin with, federal intervention in the form of a second trial, defensible when law-enforcement authorities and juries act plainly as accomplices to murder as in Mississippi Burning, was here the result of plainly political considerations: a belief that something had to be done in the face of the riots. Even if the original verdict was wrong--something which is not established by the second verdict--it was not so wrong as to justify double ...

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