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performance piece about the experiences, feelings, and tensions that contributed to and were exacerbated by the 1992 Los Angeles riots.[1] For her work, Smith interviewed over 200 residents of Los Angeles during the time of the riot. Her script consists entirely of the actual words of members of the Los Angeles community as they reflect on their experiences surrounding the Los Angeles riots. As Smith described in the introduction to her play, Twilight, which she later published as a book, "I am first

During 1992 in South Central Los Angeles, a riot started after the news of four white Los Angeles police officers beating Rodney King was published on TV. It became daily news. The riot caused many crimes to occur; participants of the riot burned down business stores, destroyed properties, and some activities involved guns that have led to many deaths. Many South Central residents were unsatisfied with police brutality and the way their community were being treated. Although the riot only lasted

the past centuries many acts of rebellion have occurred. However not many have had such an impact compared to the L.A. riots of May of 1992. After the events that occurred on May of 1992 in Los Angeles, many things changed. The L.A. riots changed race relations between police and the people of Los Angeles for the coming years. For decades racial discrimination has been a reoccurring issue that has shaped the relationships across the country. Riots, in the case of the L.A. riots, are a form of venting

On March 3, 1991 Rodney King led the Los Angeles police on a high speed chase. Once the chase was over officers pulled King out of his vehicle and began to brutally beat,taze and stomp on him. The recording of the video taken by a witness standing on the other side of the street was locally broadcasted then nationally broadcasted.The reasons that police officers acted the way they did was because “Rodney King was driving while intoxicated and when officers attempted to arrest him, the large belligerent

rioting and uproar of Los Angeles that lasted for six days after. The book weaves multiple different perspective of people with different views on the riots. Gang members, nurses, firefighters, the homeless, etc., tell their story as they have seen it. Nonetheless, Rodney King was said to have been pulled over by police after a high-speed chase, when the police removed him from his car and brutally beat him. Thereafter, “a jury acquitted three white Los Angeles Police Department officers charged with

Cronkhite discussed the King incident in depth and how the failures of the Loa Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and its leaders to institutionalize some of the contextual themes led to the beating of Rodney King (Cronkhite, 2013). This incident led to an independent investigation by what was known as the Christopher Commission (Cronkhite, 2013). Cronkhite (2013) discussed some of the issues found by the commission and how the failure to use some of the concepts contributed to the incident. Less

University and Dr. Ray V. Robertson of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette co-wrote a moving article based on Rodney Glen King, a man who quickly became the face of police brutality after a tragic event occurred that no one would ever forget. On March 3, 1991 Rodney King was a victim of a merciless beating by four Los Angeles Police Department officers. With the helpful use of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), Chaney and Robertson take twenty of King’s most well-known quotes

emerged in Los Angeles, California after Rodney King, along with two other passengers, refused to be pulled over by the California Highway Patrol (CHP) who were attempting to initiate a traffic stop. King feared being pulled over would put him at risk, for he had been drinking and was on parole, but ultimately decided it was the only thing he could do. Once his vehicle came to a halt and him and the two passengers exited, he was targeted by members of the Los Angeles Police Department and became a

The movie, Rampart, which is set in Los Angeles in 1999 and focused on the life of 24 year veteran Officer Dave Brown of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) as a part of the Rampart division. He is a man of his own breed who follows his own code of justice disregarding the solid line that stands between right and wrong. Brown is prone to using violence and intimidation to maintain his own idea that he is the unnoticed, underappreciated vigilante for the public. Although he has a hero complex

On March 3, 1991, Rodney King was pulled over by the Los Angeles Police, which four police officers beat him for refusing to follow the officer’s instructions (Martin, 2005). These four individuals are Sgt. Stacey C. Koon and Officers Laurence M. Powell, Theodore J. Briseno, and Timothy E. Wind (Martin, 2005). A videographer was able to capture the event that was aired on the KTLA news channel. It became a controversial issue that caused the LA Riot of 1992. Furthermore, Rodney King’s case demonstrated