Sunday, June 24, 2012

Who was Rodney King?

Who was Rodney King?

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  1. hey philip!

    rodney king was caught on camera getting attacked/beating on camera by LA police......

    hes the reason why LA riots happened.

    what apprently happened was he was asked to pull over, and wouldn't stop, and when he did cops got mad and asked him to get out, when he did, supposedly he was being hard to deal wtih (not in a agressive physical way) just kinda non coherent... (under the influence) the cops got fustrated and started to hit him with their night sticks... 4 cops not just 1, a person from his home caught the attack and got his camera to film it.....

    once caught, media published it....

    cops went to trail, rodney was hospitalized...

    end of court date, the cops weren't charged, barely talked too basically....

    ONCE the black/african community heard of it, the community went on a rampage,

    Its basically one of the biggest contrversy about racism in history.

    people began rioting, looting LA, starting fires, and even attacked white civilians BADLY


    SA-I-GU (the korean video professor showed us) was apart of it too....

    thats why rodney king is known, he was apart and unfortunately the start of one of the biggest events in history that turned out bad........

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  2. Rodney Glen King, who born on April 2, 1965 and died on June 17, 2012
    he was an American construction worker who became well known after being beaten harshly by Los Angeles police officers during a traffic stop on 3 March 1991.

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