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Obama is right about racial profiling
...been accorded such deference.Colbert King, the veteran black Washington Post...violent reaction to the beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles in 1992.President Bill...pastor, the Reverand Jeremiah Wright.Mr King got one thing right when he said...
Jul 28 2009, By Jurek Martin, FT.com site
Waiting for Whistler
...three chefs I had met at Gyoza King, which is a popular late-night...self-proclaimed "first mate" at Rodney's Oyster House.Despite the upbeat...restaurants, I lost my heart to Gyoza King, and not just because of the...Street, tel: +1 604609 9941Gyoza King, 1508 Robson Street, tel: +1...
Sep 05 2009, By Nicholas Lander, FT.com site
'I'm a sort of weekend rock star'
...was video footage around. Then the Rodney King incident happened and people thought...former Charterhouse pupil Jonathan King, the group recorded a series of surreal...Monty Python, Marcel Marceau and King Crimson.By 1975and the album Lamb...
Jun 01 2007, By Rob Blackhurst, FT.com site
Rhyme and reason
...closed doors) and physical hurt (rap over the knuckles). It also, in street argot, implies "rapport " - as in Rodney King's "Can't we all just get along? " Nelson George, a straight-talking black critic who disdains jargon, calls the...
Mar 02 2007, By John Sutherland, FT.com site
'I'm a sort of weekend rock star'
...buried and forgotten," he murmurs. "And it seemed that was harder to do when there was video footage around. Then the Rodney King incident happened and people thought, 'OK, we get it.'" He reels off victories following exposure of Witness footage...
Jun 02 2007, By Rob Blackhurst, Financial Times
The many trials of OJ Simpson
...take a second whack at despised defendants. This happened when four police officers were acquitted of beating motorist Rodney King in 1991, sparking the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Nor is the problem limited to the US: Britain introduced double jeopardy...
Aug 24 2007, By Christopher Caldwell, FT.com site
Pessimism clouds Darfur talks
...so why should we get into these small problems?" Col Gaddafi said, citing the troubles in Northern Ireland and the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles as examples of local problems resolved without international intervention.Mr Ibrahim and Mr Nour...
Oct 29 2007, By Barney Jopson in Sirte, Financial Times
A universal need for individual respect
...did Chicago, Newark, Detroit and others cities from the days of the second world war, until most recently during the Rodney King riots in Watts.The solution in Europe, as in the US, calls for respect for the individual and his/her faith, racial...
Nov 17 2005, By David E Moore, Financial Times
Burnt offerings
...the 1960s or the urban violence that laid siege to Los Angeles in 1992 after the white police officers who assaulted Rodney King were acquitted. The 1921 Tulsa race riot owes its name to an older American tradition, to the days when white mobs...
Feb 18 2005, By Andrew Meier, FT.com site
Christopher Caldwell: A society bursts its banks
...varied between 50,000 and 200,000.President Bush has sought to avoid some of the mistakes his father made during the 1992 Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, when he was faulted for an excess of passivity in the face of street violence. Mr Bush has promised...
Sep 02 2005, By Christopher Caldwell, FT.com site
