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Apr 22, 2024 · On May 1 Rodney King, speaking on television, made a plea for calm, famously asking, “Can we get along?” That day, U.S. Pres. George Bush dispatched 3,000–4,000 army troops and marines, along with 1,000 riot-trained federal law officers, to help restore order. The next day he declared Los Angeles a federal disaster area.
Apr 26, 2017 · Twenty-five years ago this week, four Los Angeles policemen — three of them white — were acquitted of the savage beating of Rodney King, an African-American man. Caught on camera by a...
Apr 28, 2022 · Thirty years ago this week, widespread violence erupted in Los Angeles in the aftermath of the acquittal of four white Los Angeles Police Department officers in the videotaped beating of Rodney...
Apr 27, 2022 · Full coverage: 30 years since the 1992 L.A. riots. The corner of Florence and Normandie avenues on April 29, 1992. Thirty years ago, the police officers who beat Rodney King were acquitted,...
Apr 29, 2022 · On April 29, 1992, four Los Angeles police officers were acquitted of all charges, in an East Ventura County Courthouse in Simi Valley, for the brutal attack on an unarmed Black motorist. Rodney Glen King was pulled over on March 3, 1991, by two California Highway Patrol Officers, after a high speed chase from an attempted traffic stop.
Apr 28, 2022 · Two years before George Holliday recorded Los Angeles police officers beating Rodney King, indisputable video evidence of police brutality brought hope that justice was on the horizon.
Apr 28, 2017 · April 28, 2017. LOS ANGELES — After a mostly-white jury acquitted four white police officers in the beating of Rodney King, it was only minutes before Henry Keith Watson joined hundreds of...
