#rodney king

[oldshowbiz]

April 30, 1992.

Larry King interviewed one of the jurors from the Rodney King trial.

The woman defended the acquittal of the LAPD. Larry King asked her why she felt it was necessary for the officers to beat Rodney King. She answered, "I don't think they beat him up."

#lapd #cops #1990s #larry king #rodney king

[bfpnola]

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[radicalgraff]

It is the 30 year anniversary of the LA uprising which broke out on April 29, 1992 in response to the acquittal of the LAPD officers involved in the brutal beating of Rodney King.

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[akonoadham]

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[yodaprod]

4/29/1992

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[boricuacherry-blog]

#true crime #latasha harlin #los angeles #california #homicide #solved #ja du #1991 #90s #rodney king #history

[scrapyardparadise]

This doodle took way too long for something that looks incredibly rushed.

Roof Koreans, re-imagined.

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My thoughts on the LA Riots of '92:

April 29, 1992. Sa-I-Gu. LA Riots of '92. The day racial tensions between the African American and Korean American communities within Los Angeles reached a tipping point. Many lives lost, many homes and businesses razed to the ground.

All in response to the undue cruelty experienced by Rodney King in the hands of a corrupt police department.

Many Korean-Americans lost their livelihoods, and even lives. But some chose to take up arms, for they saw they could not depend on the incredibly corrupt LAPD any longer.

Some may condemn the actions of the ones being called "Roof Koreans", deeming their actions anywhere between "callous" and (for some reason) racist.

I personally see their actions as, at worst, still very understandable. After all, many of them were at most vaguely aware of much of the surrounding events.

#Roof Koreans #my art #LA Riots #Los Angeles Riots #Rodney King #police brutally #2a #2amendment

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

By Sam Marcy

May 5, 1992 — To speak of the people in general terms, without cutting through the propaganda to reveal the relations of exploiter to exploited, of oppressor to oppressed, is to participate in covering up the reality. Most indispensable for an understanding of contemporary society is the relation between oppressor and oppressed nationalities. One cannot apply Marxism to any meaningful extent without first recognizing the existence of national oppression — the oppression of a whole people by capitalist imperialism. This is one of the most characteristic features of the present world reality.

#LA rebellion #Los Angeles #Black liberation #BlackLivesMatter #Rodney King #LAPD #killer cops #racism #national oppression #workers #class struggle #capitalism #imperialism #Sam Marcy #Struggle La Lucha

[black-is-beautiful18]

I didn’t think this needed to be said but trying to say that the LA Uprisings that occurred April 29th, 1992, which were the result of the killings of Latasha Harlins and Rodney King, are ahistorical cuz shops in KTown were destroyed is also ahistorical and antiblack. The only reason shops in KTown were looted and destroyed is cuz LAPD blocked protesters in KTown in order to keep them away from white towns. Stop spreading false information.

#la uprisings #rodney king #latasha harlins #april 29th 1992 #black lives matter #unique writes

[beenetworkmedia]

BREONNA TAYLOR AND TYRE NICHOLS ARE REMINDERS OF LESSONS NEVER LEARNED.

"The public execution of Black folks will never be normal.”  

The inhumane shootings, beatings and treatment by police officers are reminiscent of the history surrounding this nation’s Culture of Violence and Trauma impacting Black Americans. BY: GEORGE ADDISON “I can’t bring myself to watch yet another video, not because I don’t care, but because we’re all just a few videos away from becoming completely desensitized. The public execution of Black folks…

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#Arthur McDuffie #Black Trauma #BREONNA TAYLOR #Department of Justice #George Addison #GEORGE FLOYD #Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer #Louisville Metro Government #Louisville Metro Police Department #Merrick B. Garland Attorney General #Rodney King #Tyre Nichols

[sh00ting-starrs]

March 3, 1991: "Holliday recorded four white Los Angeles police officers using batons, Tasers, feet and fists to beat a Black man later identified as Rodney King, whose name quickly became globally synonymous with police brutality...King was left with skull fractures, broken bones and teeth and permanent brain damage...When the four officers involved in the King beating were acquitted a year later of excessive use of force by a jury in Ventura County, five days of rioting ensued in Los Angeles, resulting in 54 deaths, some 2,400 injuries, scores of destroyed buildings and other property damage, and more than 12,000 arrests." -NPR

#rodney king #police brutality

[oldshowbiz]

1991.

The week the Rodney King video was released, the Associated Press reported that several of the officers involved were reprimanded for police brutality multiple times in the past.

#1990s #lapd #cops #rodney king #los angeles #sylmar

[playitagin]

2012-Rodney King

Rodney Glen King (April 2, 1965 – June 17, 2012) was an African American man who was a victim of police brutality. On March 3, 1991, he was beaten by officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) during his arrest after a pursuit for driving while intoxicated on the I-210. An uninvolved individual, George Holliday, filmed the incident from his nearby balcony and sent the footage to local news station KTLA.[2] The footage showed an unarmed King on the ground being beaten after initially evading arrest. The incident was covered by news media around the world and caused a public furor.

During the riots, on May 1, 1992,[56] King made a television appearance pleading for an end to the riots:

I just want to say – you know – can we, can we all get along? Can we, can we get along? Can we stop making it horrible for the older people and the kids? And ... I mean we've got enough smog in Los Angeles let alone to deal with setting these fires and things......And uh, I mean, please, we can, we can get along here. We all can get along. We just gotta. We gotta. I mean, we're all stuck here for a while. Let's, you know, let's try to work it out. Let's try to beat it, you know. Let's try to work it out.

The widely quoted line has been often paraphrased as, "Can we all just get along?" or "Can't we all just get along?"

On Father's Day, June 17, 2012, King's partner, Cynthia Kelley, found King dead underwater at the bottom of his swimming pool. Police in Rialto received a 911 call from Kelley at about 5:25 a.m. (PDT).[88][89] Responding officers removed King from the pool and performed CPR on him. Still pulseless, he was then transferred to an advanced life support ambulance where paramedics attempted to revive him. He was transported to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton, California, and was pronounced dead on arrival at 6:11 a.m. (PDT) The Rialto Police Department began a standard drowning investigation and said there did not appear to be any foul play.

#Jun.17.2012 #date of death #Rodney King #American victim #police brutality #history today

[gleep-glorp-bobcat]

The Black Consciousness Movement, Black Consciousness Movement of Azania, The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Fuerza Latina and Black Nia Force, Black Unity Rally to Stop the Killings (New York, NY), poster, 1992. Black Nia Force was a student organization at Howard University that led the student response on the East Coast to the Rodney King beatings in 1992.

#defund the police #police violence #1992 #brooklyn #abolish the police #malcolm x #rodney king

[eucanthos]

Nick Cave   (US, 1959)

Cave’s training in dance choreography and textile art inspired him to create Soundsuits, named after the noises they emitt when in motion.

Cave created the first Soundsuit in response to the brutal beating of Rodney King by police officers in Los Angeles in 1991. Soundsuits protect their human content obstructing bias on the basis of race, gender, and class.

Website: http://nickcaveart.com

#Nick Cave #assemblage #garment #toys #defaced #black #dance #sculpture #hidden #Rodney King #racism #soundsuits

[haverwood]

Rodney King Spike Lee USA, 2017 ★★★★

#Rodney King #Spike Lee #2017 #2010s #netflix #photoset #title card