First, may I begin by saying, “Rodney King!�. If you haven’t heard already, the FBI is investigating a case of police brutality in Los Angeles that was caught on tape. The tape came to their attention after a local resident who captured the footage posted the beating on the popular video sharing site, Youtube.com. Now, in order for the tape to be noticed, this means thousands of kids must have seen the footage, enjoyed it, and shared it with others. Sort of a, “Hey, check out these cops kicking this guys ass!� type of thing. Now on the popular world of Youtube, this sort of overnight popularity is not easy to come by. I mean lets look at today’s top videos so far.

1. Lindsay Lohan Calls Paris a C*nt. I haven’t had the pleasure of viewing this one yet, but you can rest assured it is in my queue.
2. A Video Blog by Lonely Girl. This amateur home video starts out looking like a sexy one on one webcam rendezvous, but ends up being quite frightening as the hot chick is suddenly replaced by a small black kid flexing.
3. Women’s Beach Volleyball: Go Pro or Go Home. This epic documentary gets behind the scenes of the Women’s AVP tour, with interviews with various girls. There is one comment posted on the video, which reads, “Women suck at sports�.

Needless to say, among this fierce competition in the online video world, it is quite an accomplishment for the police brutality video to reach such popularity. I’m thinking the neighbor who posted the tape must not have liked the gangster very much, as he did not alert authorities to the beating. Instead, he just threw the tape up on the Internet so other people in the world could check out his neighbor having the crap kicked out of him, and enjoy it as much as he did. I mean this thing has been kicking around cyber space for months now, and has only just become of interest to any sort of authorities. If you have a chance to watch the video though, it comes highly reccomended from me.