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July 28, 2009
Obama is right about racial profiling
...been accorded such deference. Colbert King, the veteran black Washington Post columnist...the violent reaction to the beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles in 1992. President...pastor, the Reverand Jeremiah Wright. Mr King got one thing right when he said “why... By Jurek Martin
November 17, 2005
A universal need for individual respect
...as 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... By David E Moore
June 2, 2007
'I'm a sort of weekend rock star'
...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... By Rob Blackhurst
August 24, 2007
The many trials of OJ Simpson
...to 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 for... By Christopher Caldwell
October 29, 2007
Pessimism clouds Darfur talks
...rebels, 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 have... By Barney Jopson in Sirte
June 1, 2007
‘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...Monty Python, Marcel Marceau and King Crimson. By 1975and the album Lamb... By Rob Blackhurst
March 2, 2007
Rhyme and reason
...as on 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... By John Sutherland
September 2, 2005
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... By Christopher Caldwell
November 7, 2005
Ask the experts: French riots
...France when it has been shown to work in other countries?Roy King, France John Thornhill: As one government minister...as the acquittal of the police officers accused of beating Rodney King sparked the riots in LA. But French urban violence is not...
February 18, 2005
Burnt offerings
...Newark in 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, with... By Andrew Meier