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Rodney King: 20 years ago today (1 Viewer)

'zamboni said:
20 years - wow. That was some scary stuff watching L.A. turn into a war zone.
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Yeah. Aside from the Reginald Denny footage (which I don't even think I can watch now) the one image that I'll always remember is the business owners in Koreatown arming themselves and actually taking shots at looters. At the time I just kept thinking "is this where we are as a society now?" Link
 
I love sentences like this in news stories:

The beating of Rodney King 20 years ago Thursday marked the end of a 100-mph car chase and the beginning of a chain of events that would forever change Los Angeles, its police department and the racial conversation in the United States.
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Changed forever? Really? This couldn't happen again tomorrow?
 
'Thorn said:
I love sentences like this in news stories:

The beating of Rodney King 20 years ago Thursday marked the end of a 100-mph car chase and the beginning of a chain of events that would forever change Los Angeles, its police department and the racial conversation in the United States.
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Changed forever? Really? This couldn't happen again tomorrow?
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It could happen again, but it's far more unlikely. A lot has changed with the LAPD since then.
 
Today's date is actually not that significant, because this didn't become a big story until the video began to circulate on local news broadcasts a few nights later.

The significant date in the Rodney King affair is April 29, 1992. That is is the day the officers were acquitted of the beating. The riots began that night on Florence and Normandy. I was at a Dodger game, and got caught in the middle of the riots on my way home.

 
'timschochet said:
Today's date is actually not that significant, because this didn't become a big story until the video began to circulate on local news broadcasts a few nights later.

The significant date in the Rodney King affair is April 29, 1992. That is is the day the officers were acquitted of the beating. The riots began that night on Florence and Normandy. I was at a Dodger game, and got caught in the middle of the riots on my way home.
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Thanks, Tacitus.
 
'timschochet said:
Today's date is actually not that significant, because this didn't become a big story until the video began to circulate on local news broadcasts a few nights later.The significant date in the Rodney King affair is April 29, 1992. That is is the day the officers were acquitted of the beating. The riots began that night on Florence and Normandy. I was at a Dodger game, and got caught in the middle of the riots on my way home.
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Damn!So spill. Car get beat on? People lobbing bricks at you?What happened?
 
'timschochet said:
Today's date is actually not that significant, because this didn't become a big story until the video began to circulate on local news broadcasts a few nights later.

The significant date in the Rodney King affair is April 29, 1992. That is is the day the officers were acquitted of the beating. The riots began that night on Florence and Normandy. I was at a Dodger game, and got caught in the middle of the riots on my way home.
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You celebrate on whatever day you want. I'm partying today.
 
'Jules Winnfield said:
'timschochet said:
Today's date is actually not that significant, because this didn't become a big story until the video began to circulate on local news broadcasts a few nights later.The significant date in the Rodney King affair is April 29, 1992. That is is the day the officers were acquitted of the beating. The riots began that night on Florence and Normandy. I was at a Dodger game, and got caught in the middle of the riots on my way home.
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Damn!So spill. Car get beat on? People lobbing bricks at you?What happened?
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Tim escaped harm by telling the surrounding rioters "I'm just like you! I'm Jewish! We're all minorities! ATTICA! ATTICA! ATTICA!"
 
'RudiStein said:
'Jules Winnfield said:
'timschochet said:
Today's date is actually not that significant, because this didn't become a big story until the video began to circulate on local news broadcasts a few nights later.

The significant date in the Rodney King affair is April 29, 1992. That is is the day the officers were acquitted of the beating. The riots began that night on Florence and Normandy. I was at a Dodger game, and got caught in the middle of the riots on my way home.
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Damn!So spill. Car get beat on? People lobbing bricks at you?

What happened?
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Tim escaped harm by telling the surrounding rioters "I'm just like you! I'm Jewish! We're all minorities! ATTICA! ATTICA! ATTICA!"
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This really cries out for a Fictitious Things timschochet Did During the LA Riots spinoff thread. My vote goes for "Looted a television from a local electronics store as a way of sticking it to the white man."
 
'timschochet said:
Today's date is actually not that significant, because this didn't become a big story until the video began to circulate on local news broadcasts a few nights later.The significant date in the Rodney King affair is April 29, 1992. That is is the day the officers were acquitted of the beating. The riots began that night on Florence and Normandy. I was at a Dodger game, and got caught in the middle of the riots on my way home.
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The riots were on the 110?
 
I was 8 at the time. For the next next few years or so anytime somebody was getting beat up(either jokingly or for real), jumped, there was a wrestling match of some kind, or really any type of horsing around that kids would do, we'd all scream Rodney King!, Rodney King! Ya I grew up in a white neighborhood.

 
I recently watched the Rodney King video in my Introduction to Criminal Justice Class last semester, and it was the first time I had seen the video. That video is pretty gruesome and as a police officer to be I cannot imagine partaking in something like that. Although, I will admit the culture has changed a bit it is pretty staggering that this event happened.

 
'NDyse10 said:
I recently watched the Rodney King video in my Introduction to Criminal Justice Class last semester, and it was the first time I had seen the video. That video is pretty gruesome and as a police officer to be I cannot imagine partaking in something like that. Although, I will admit the culture has changed a bit it is pretty staggering that this event happened.
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What did professor Woz have to say about it?
 
'RudiStein said:
'NDyse10 said:
I recently watched the Rodney King video in my Introduction to Criminal Justice Class last semester, and it was the first time I had seen the video. That video is pretty gruesome and as a police officer to be I cannot imagine partaking in something like that. Although, I will admit the culture has changed a bit it is pretty staggering that this event happened.
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What did professor Woz have to say about it?
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link

 
Wow Rodney King got over 3 million dollars for the beating and has proceeded to burn through all the money, according to the article I read today.

 
'HughHoney said:
I was 8 at the time. For the next next few years or so anytime somebody was getting beat up(either jokingly or for real), jumped, there was a wrestling match of some kind, or really any type of horsing around that kids would do, we'd all scream Rodney King!, Rodney King! Ya I grew up in a white neighborhood.
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Very touching story.
 
'Nigel Tufnel said:
'timschochet said:
Today's date is actually not that significant, because this didn't become a big story until the video began to circulate on local news broadcasts a few nights later.

The significant date in the Rodney King affair is April 29, 1992. That is is the day the officers were acquitted of the beating. The riots began that night on Florence and Normandy. I was at a Dodger game, and got caught in the middle of the riots on my way home.
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You celebrate on whatever day you want. I'm partying today.
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:censored: :unsure: :lmao:
 
So- :innatimmystyle: - A gb and I were driving around country after graduating from college the spring of the trial/verdict. We were in LA a couple of weeks before the verdict was announced and went to check out the Watts Towers (worth seeing if you haven't).

I don't feel like telling the whole story :notinnatimmystyle:, but end result is that as we tried to get back to the highway, LA Police pulled us over on a quiet city street. Two white guys, brand new Saab, NY plates, in Watts. Aside from a small container filled to the brim with white powder and a ziplock bag full of money we were clean, and they let us off with the following warning: "you're lucky you weren't shot at- there have been threats of violence for weeks on account of the Rodney King trial."

I'll never forget those words- especially when seeing the press conferences after the verdict where the police expressed such shock and surprise that the riots happened.

 
'cstu said:
'Thorn said:
I love sentences like this in news stories:

The beating of Rodney King 20 years ago Thursday marked the end of a 100-mph car chase and the beginning of a chain of events that would forever change Los Angeles, its police department and the racial conversation in the United States.
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Changed forever? Really? This couldn't happen again tomorrow?
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It could happen again, but it's far more unlikely. A lot has changed with the LAPD since then.
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I think you're kidding yourself.
 
'RudiStein said:
'NDyse10 said:
I recently watched the Rodney King video in my Introduction to Criminal Justice Class last semester, and it was the first time I had seen the video. That video is pretty gruesome and as a police officer to be I cannot imagine partaking in something like that. Although, I will admit the culture has changed a bit it is pretty staggering that this event happened.
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What did professor Woz have to say about it?
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What's odd is I showed this in my criminal justice class last semester. :scared:
 
'RudiStein said:
'Andy Dufresne said:
'Zow said:
BUT HE WAS ON COCAINE!!!!!111:scared:
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They suspected it was PCP. And after getting hit with a taser TWICE and still getting up, that was a decent suspicion.
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What are you guys talking about?
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The supporters of the officers stated Rodney was hopped up on drugs. Particularly coke and PCP. A blood result later revealed he only had the metabolite of marijuana in his system. Officers also cite to a 100 mph chase which, IIRC, the female officer later recanted. Several texts state as a fact King never got anywhere near 100 mph and it's questionable whether he even fled from police.
 
'Zow said:
Officers also cite to a 100 mph chase which, IIRC, the female officer later recanted. Several texts state as a fact King never got anywhere near 100 mph and it's questionable whether he even fled from police.
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Come on Woz. According to King’s own statements, he refused to pull the car over because a DUI would violate his parole for a previous robbery conviction.
 
'Zow said:
'RudiStein said:
'NDyse10 said:
I recently watched the Rodney King video in my Introduction to Criminal Justice Class last semester, and it was the first time I had seen the video. That video is pretty gruesome and as a police officer to be I cannot imagine partaking in something like that. Although, I will admit the culture has changed a bit it is pretty staggering that this event happened.
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What did professor Woz have to say about it?
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What's odd is I showed this in my criminal justice class last semester. :goodposting:
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Interesting. Whereabouts are you a professor? If you don't mind me asking.
 
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'Andy Dufresne said:
'Zow said:
Officers also cite to a 100 mph chase which, IIRC, the female officer later recanted. Several texts state as a fact King never got anywhere near 100 mph and it's questionable whether he even fled from police.
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Come on Woz. According to King’s own statements, he refused to pull the car over because a DUI would violate his parole for a previous robbery conviction.
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True, but regardless it does not mean he traveled 100 mph.
 
'NDyse10 said:
'Zow said:
'RudiStein said:
'NDyse10 said:
I recently watched the Rodney King video in my Introduction to Criminal Justice Class last semester, and it was the first time I had seen the video. That video is pretty gruesome and as a police officer to be I cannot imagine partaking in something like that. Although, I will admit the culture has changed a bit it is pretty staggering that this event happened.
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What did professor Woz have to say about it?
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What's odd is I showed this in my criminal justice class last semester. :goodposting:
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Interesting. Whereabouts are you a professor? If you don't mind me asking.
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Arizona
 
'Zow said:
'Andy Dufresne said:
'Zow said:
Officers also cite to a 100 mph chase which, IIRC, the female officer later recanted. Several texts state as a fact King never got anywhere near 100 mph and it's questionable whether he even fled from police.
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Come on Woz. According to King’s own statements, he refused to pull the car over because a DUI would violate his parole for a previous robbery conviction.
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True, but regardless it does not mean he traveled 100 mph.
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Pretty sure andy's not questioning the 100mph part.
 
Pretty sure the OP has a link. The link has a story. The story includes a video of a recent King interview. The interview includes this direct quote from Rodney King:

"I was doing every bit of 100 m.p.h."

 
'BobbyLayne said:
Pretty sure the OP has a link. The link has a story. The story includes a video of a recent King interview. The interview includes this direct quote from Rodney King:"I was doing every bit of 100 m.p.h."
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I thought we already did a "how fast have you driven" thread.
 
'BobbyLayne said:
Pretty sure the OP has a link. The link has a story. The story includes a video of a recent King interview. The interview includes this direct quote from Rodney King:"I was doing every bit of 100 m.p.h."
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Then again dude was driving a Hyundai so...
 
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