The Power of the Situation A week of urban mayhem was ignited by the April 29‚ 1992 jury acquittal of four white police officers who were captured on videotape beating black motorist Rodney King. The angry response in South Central produced its own brutal footage‚ most dramatically the live broadcast from a hovering TV news helicopter of two black men striking unconscious with a brick‚ kicking‚ and then dancing over the body of‚ white truck driver Reginald Denny. The final three-day toll
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meaningful snippets of what happened during the trial of Rodney King‚ the viewers were introduced to the conflict used in the film that surfaced and distinctly placed attention on the concept of belonging. In the film‚ the Freedom Writers were made following the Rodney King trial in 1992 and the OJ Simpson murder case in 1994. These trials brought out the sensitive issues about injustices experienced by people of different ethnic origin. The Rodney King trial provided the film’s background and was presented
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1991‚ Rodney King was involved in a high speed chase in Los Angeles where he was eventually caught and arrested by the L.A.P.D. (Biography 2015). After removing King from his vehicle‚ the police officers brutally beat him (Biography 2015). What they didn’t know is that George Holliday‚ an amateur camera man‚ was videoing the whole
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they would make it home before nightfall. May 1‚ 1992‚ King went live asking citizens of Los Angeles " People‚ I just want to say‚ can we all get along? Can we get along?... We’ve just got to‚ just got to. We’re all stuck in here for a while. Let’s try to work it out. Let’s try to work it out" (82). The Rodney King Riot was one of the most horrific riots Los Angeles had seen. However‚ the people were now being heard. After the riots‚ King was given a second chance at justice as the officers who
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The Law Enforcement Profession Abstract In order to understand comptemporary law enforcemment‚ we should recognize the conditions that impact our profession. It is agreed upon by many scholars that major changes in law enforcement occur every five years. Policing is sometimes characterize"... like a sandbar in a river‚ subject to being changed continuously by the currents in which it is immersed..." (Swanson‚ Territo and Taylor‚ p. 2). However‚ in recent years some major changes have occurred
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Cited: • Lepore‚ Mike. Rodney King police brutality case and the 1991 Los Angeles riots. 2000. 22 Sept. 2004 . • BBC – History – The Troubles. 2001. 22 Sept. 2004
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say‚ it was a mortifying past for both the African Americans and the people of LA. The emotion explosion that accounted for thousands of injuries and billions of dollar worth of damage originated from the discriminatory decision of a court case. Rodney King‚ a middle-aged African American man‚ was pulled over on a highway for drunk speeding. He was brutally beaten by four police officers for no apparent reasons‚ and someone recorded the scene. The short clip soon hit the news‚ which shook the African
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force by officers was the case involving Rodney King. The Rodney King case not only contained excessive use of force‚ but also the falsifying of police reports (Mangan‚ 2000). The LAPD’s officers and supervisors downplayed the injuries to King as minor scrapes and bruises. The officers involved in the beating reported that King attacked officers‚ resisted‚ and increased his level of resistance. The video tape‚ however‚ showed a much different story. King is seen in a defenseless position on his
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but made out of gold. Oversized sweaters were popular . how it affected. The 90s fashion had some affect on what happened in the earlier paragraphs. Since sagging pants was popular in like rap and stuff and gangsters they might have saw Rodney as a threat or thought he was going to do something bad since that was what gangsters wore usually. Jeffrey Dahmer’s case could be tied in with fashion because guys were starting to be more like girls during this time period that is why he only chose
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ended in an incident that would become synonymous with police brutality: the beating of a young man named Rodney King by members of the Los Angeles Police Department. An amateur video‚ televised nationwide‚ showed King lying on the ground while three officers kicked him and struck him repeatedly with their nightsticks. No one who viewed that beating will ever forget its viciousness. The Rodney King incident projected the brutal reality of police abuse into living rooms across the nation‚ and for a while
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