When [police officers] arrived at [McClain's] crib, McClain allegedly tried to strike a cop with a four-foot sword. After missing, McClain retreated to his basement, where he donned a chainmail armored vest and leather gauntlets to protect his arms. He also added a giant wooden mallet to his arsenal and beckoned officers to come downstairs and get him. "I'm gonna crush your fucking skulls," McClain warned. Then, in a nice rhetorical flourish (for a lunatic, at least), he added, "I have a thousand years of power." That omnipotence, however, was no match for a police Taser, which felled McClain. (emphasis added)Rodney King was a very important case, but my humor gland would have been far better satiated had that camera been on hand to witness a crazy-eyed greasy dude in chainmail getting electrocuted.
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