Rodney King

Events Rodney King was involved in a high speed chase with the Los Angeles police on March 3, 1991, when caught King was pulled from the vehicle and brutally beaten by a multitude of LAPD officers. The entire incident was caught on tape by an amateur cameraman George Holiday (“Rodney”, n.d.). The officers in question were all charged by the state of California with excessive force by a police officer and assault with a deadly weapon. During the trial Koon reported that the beating the King suffered

March 3rd, 1991. A day that has lived on in infamy for more than 20 years. Rodney King was just a normal 25-year old guy who had a family, a job, people who loved him. He had work the next day, so he decided to pop open some beers with one of his friends. According to King, around the time of 20th anniversary of the LA riots, “I know drinking and driving is not OK, and I shouldn't have been back then, and there's no excuse for it. But I had a job to go to that Monday, and so I went over to a friend's

A car chase 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

Rodney King and the Straw that Broke the Camel’s Back At 12:30 A.M. on March 3, 1991, Tim and Melanie Singer, a married team of the California Highway Patrol, noticed a Hyundai speeding along the Foothill Freeway in northeastern L.A. The car belonged to Rodney Glen King, a native Californian who had recently been released from prison for threatening and assaulting a storeowner. Immediately, the Singers exited the highway, returned behind King’s vehicle, and began to pursue at speeds up to 117 mph

it worth losing your job for someone else's life? "Doing the right thing requires knowledge of what might be the right action and a willingness to step up and safely intervene when you see something is wrong."(Share Cornell) I think that in the Rodney King incident, Ju should have stepped in and did something. In the movie Battle in Seattle, I think something should have been done about the police officers spraying innocent, peaceful protesters with tear gas. That should not have happened. In the

On April 29th, 1992, after four white police officers were found to be innocent in the brutal beating of Rodney King, a young black man, the city of Los Angeles erupted in wild chaos and riots that resulted in the death of 53 people, with thousands more injured and in billions of dollars in damage to the city (Dickerson, 2015). The riots were a result of growing tensions between the south Los Angeles community and the police force, due to the high racial profiling and brutality experienced by African

When Rodney King was beaten by Los Angeles police, it changed racial relations forever, but how does this tie into the trial of the famous football play and actor, Mr. Orenthal James Simpson. Unbeknownst to many, these two seemingly unrelated cases have much more in common than what meets the eye. To understand the two cases, the reader must first examine the background of each case separately, then compare and contrast the cases. In order to truly realize how the two cases compare, the reader must

oppression and conflict that thrived in racial divisions. These divisions created a low level of inter-racial acceptance, especially in the highly segregated areas of LA. When Rodney King was brutally assaulted by white police officers, the trial became a symbol of racial tensions throughout the city. Minority groups empathized with King, as they too had been victims of society’s neglect. On April 29, 1992, following the verdict of the jury: not guilty on all counts, Los Angeles burst into violence. Originating

Kara Paulsen Ms Seibert Honors English 9 4 May 2017 Rodney King Riots of 1992 In May of 1992, Manhattan borough president and NLC Advisory Council's Liaison for Diversity in Governance’s Ruth Messinger expressed, “Violence begets violence. We must have the strength to break this cycle” out of frustration resulting from detrimental civil rights riots stemming from the brutal beating of an African American man (Baker). From April 29th to May 1st of 1992 protestors throughout the Los Angeles area displayed

The 1991 beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police provides rich case material in how an attack perceived as unjust can backfire. George H. W. Bush said, “The last thing the leaders of Los Angeles expected in the early 1990s was that their city would become the scene of the nation 's deadliest urban race riot since the Civil War.” The race riot that Mr. Bush is referencing are the Los Angeles race riots that occurred as a result of Rodney King’s arrest in 1991 exemplified the deep tensions between