The comparison of the two incidents provides insight into how far the issue of police brutality has, or has not, progressed, analysts say. Recorded on the cell phone of a passerby, the video shows a light-skinned officer repeatedly punching a woman in the face on the side of the freeway. The police version of events is that an officer tried to stop the woman, but that she repeatedly ignored the commands, at one point veering “into the traffic lanes.” Earl Ofari Hutchinson, a local activist, says the latest beating has provoked the same anger and rage from community residents as the King beating, and sparked demands for federal and state probes, and prosecution of the officer or officers. “It’s no exaggeration to say this is a Rodney King II case. The parallels are obvious,” he says. “Two police officers physically assaulting a woman, the woman is African-American, and the assault is captured by a passing civilian with his camera in all its graphic, gory and shocking detail.”