Even those who have argued that the punishment of the two police officers
in the Rodney King beating case was unjustly lenient must now argue that
the Williams-Watson verdicts also were unjustly lenient. After all, these
people constantly argued that the two cases were morally identical.
The jurors didn't want more rioting (and didn't want to subject themselves
to personal mortal danger). So, they chose peace over justice. The question
for our society is: What price peace?