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...The publication date closely follows the King’s Speech on November 7, in which King Charles III will set out the government’s programme of legislation for the next session of parliament....
...(That didn’t happen with the Rodney King beating.) In Europe, both the “woke” movement and much of the alt-right reaction against it are American imports. And the US isn’t even trying to do this....
...The trial of one of America’s most famous Black citizens in a Los Angeles courtroom unfolded four years after the brutal beating of Rodney King, a Black man, by LA police, and racial tensions in the city...
...The beating of Rodney King in 1991 had no such international echo....
...Windhorst has the network of high-powered contacts befitting a consummate survivor, with his Rolodex including everyone from reformed junk bond king Michael Milken to Hollywood A-lister Michael Douglas....
...King in 1991; he imagined his extravagant costume-sculptures, concealing the wearer’s colour and gender, as fanciful protective armour....
...He made the first after police beat Rodney King in 1991, and they are meant to help process collective sorrow through celebration, and to give armour to the marginalized....
...For Memphis, a majority-Black city of 630,000, the incident has revived memories of the infamous assault of Rodney King by Los Angeles police in 1991....
...Rodney Reid London W5, UK...
...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....
...In his final year, the acquittal of the police officers who beat Rodney King and the ensuing riots in Los Angeles inspired him to pursue politics....
...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...
...For many non-Jamaicans, Marley is reggae, but the cult of Holy Bob the “Rock Reggae King” is problematic....
...Cave began making his comically exuberant “Soundsuits” on hearing reports of police brutality against an innocent black man, Rodney King....
...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....
...The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World by Karl Schlögel, translated by Rodney Livingstone (Princeton) An impressively evocative look at material life in the USSR, from gulags and the planned economy...
...Letter in response to this article: Preserving UK shipyard jobs should be a priority / From Rodney Reid, London W5, UK...
...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....
...As late as 2001, 20.3m people watched BBC One’s Only Fools and Horses Christmas special, in which Peckham traders Del and Rodney lost their fortune....
...Continue down St James’s Street, and gasp at the full-on 1970s period piece that is No 66 (Rodney Gordon, 1979-82), before turning down St James’s Place....
...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...
...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....
...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...
...She traces her interest in politics and social justice to the spring of 1992, when four Los Angeles police officers were acquitted of the beating of Rodney King, sparking outrage and riots....
...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...
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