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...The police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis three years ago set off protests in London, Paris and beyond. The beating of Rodney King in 1991 had no such international echo....
...It is also one of the most high-profile police killings in the US since the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others triggered nationwide protests three years ago....
...Floyd, a black man, died after a white police officer knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes, an incident that was also captured on video....
...She acknowledges the need for reform given the deep-seated tensions between the LAPD and minority residents, which exploded into view after the police beating of Rodney King in 1991....
...Distraught after watching the television footage of Los Angeles police officers beating Rodney King, Cave sat in a Chicago park trying to process the scene of raw, public and vengeful violence carried out...
...But when he learned about the beating of Rodney King, it changed the course of his art. In March of ’91, Rodney King was arrested by the LA police department for drunk driving....
...Philonise Floyd, George Floyd’s brother, addressed the congregation, saying that neither Rodney King, beaten by Los Angeles Police Department officers in 1991, or Eric Garner, who died after being put in...
...It was a harrowing image that somehow had a power beyond so many other short videos of black people being shot or maimed by police, beginning 30 years ago with the assault in Los Angeles on Rodney King....
...The FT’s finding echoes what an independent commission found 30 years ago when it examined the Los Angeles Police Department following the Rodney King beating....
...Video’s limited power to sway juries in police cases was previewed 30 years ago in Los Angeles, when four white officers who beat black motorist Rodney King with batons and fists were charged with excessive...
...But it also has parallels with other notorious cases, including the 1992 trial over the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers, which was captured on video too, and the killing of Trayvon...
...“Everybody is going to remember him around the world,” said Rodney Floyd, George’s brother. “He is going to change the world.”...
...It was last invoked in 1992 amid the riots after the acquittal of police officers who had beaten Rodney King, an African-American man, in Los Angeles....
...The Insurrection Act was last invoked in 1992 after four police officers were acquitted of charges in connection with the brutal beating of Rodney King, a black man, in Los Angeles....
...But as 2020 unfolded, with the killing of George Floyd and “the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement” — Labinjo quietly underscores that BLM was not a new phenomenon — she found herself driven by...
...Mr Bratton went on to Los Angeles, to repair a force disgraced by the 1991 police assault of Rodney King, a black motorist....
...The Insurrection Act was last invoked in 1992 during the race riots in Los Angeles, after police officers were acquitted of beating Rodney King....
...But it is only the latest in a string of cases of police violence in the US, including those of Rodney King in Los Angeles, Abner Louima, Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell and Eric Garner in New York, and Michael...
...Floyd’s death — and its aftermath — bore a depressing similarity to other cases of police violence against African-Americans, including Rodney King in Los Angeles, Abner Louima, Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell...
...that today California is firmly in the Democratic column and Bill Clinton won the state in 1992, despite the riots that year after the acquittal of the police officers who brutalised an African-American, Rodney...
...The S&P also finished 1992 in positive territory after riots following the acquittal of Los Angeles police officers who had beaten Rodney King, another black man....
...The former vice-president marked the one-week anniversary of Floyd’s death by visiting a black church in his hometown of Wilmington....
...remember covering the aftermath of the riots in South Central Los Angeles in 1992, but I had forgotten till I checked today that they happened more than a year after the videotaping of the vicious beating of Rodney...
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