#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."

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4/29/1992

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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.

[playitagin]

1992 LA Uprising

1992 – Riots in Los Angeles

 Unrest began in South Central Los Angeles on April 29, after a jury acquitted four officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) charged with using excessive force in the arrest and beating of Rodney King. This incident had been videotaped and widely shown in television broadcasts.

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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.

[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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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

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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.

[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.

[eklectic-magick]

"The very possibility of defending oneself is the exclusive privilege of a dominant minority. In the case of the beating of Rodney King, the state (through the intermediary of its armed representatives) was not regarded as violent, but as reacting to violence... Conversely, for Rodney King, as for every other body victimized by this rhetoric of self-defense, the more he defended himself, the more indefensible he became."

-Elsa Dorlin, Self Defense, A Philosophy of Violence

[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

[haverwood]

Rodney King Spike Lee USA, 2017 ★★★★