Martin Luther King, who saw far worse injustices than were ever inflicted on convicted felon Rodney King and suspected felon Mark Duggan (whose shooting death sparked the London riots), knew that nonviolent protest was the only effective way to secure social justice.
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He is a civil rights attorney who was co-counsel in the Rodney King case.
One was the video of the Rodney King beating, which took place during his second semester.
No matter where you fit in, remember Rodney King, Don Corleone and Mr. Rogers.
Since the Rodney King case, civilian oversight has increased substantially all over the country.
I've often said that during the Rodney King riots, we talked about it, then it went away.
One more trial awaited: Rodney King's lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles.
Smith's works include her take on the Rodney King case and a healthcare show entitled Let Me Down Easy.
The well-known case of Rodney King vs. the LAPD is a classic example.
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Eventually some particularly egregious case, such as the beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles, causes a public outcry.
Angelenos wanted to see in Rodney King a story of personal redemption to mirror the civic one they had witnessed.
" It all has a sort of Rodney King-like quality to it: "Can't we all just get along?
In more recent years, amateur video was credited with capturing the 1991 beating by Los Angeles police of Rodney King.
Lemon reported for CNN's documentary Race and Rage: The Beating of Rodney King, which aired 20 years to the day of the beating.
In the height of the riots, Rodney King uttered a question as he looked straight into the lens of a TV camera.
He references Gates, the former chief of the department during the Rodney King beating case, and Fuhrman, a detective who called O.
The residents of Beverly Hills, no doubt humbled by that nasty incident with Rodney King, have replaced their Ferraris with Jeep Cherokees.
It was an unwelcome allegation for a department that overhauled itself after the notorious police beating in 1991 of a black man, Rodney King.
Early Sunday, the story broke with the sad news that Rodney King was found dead at the bottom of his swimming pool in Rialta, California.
"I am saddened by the death of Rodney King, " said Bernard Parks, a Los Angeles city councilman who served as LAPD chief from 1997 to 2002.
So I use the example in the piece I was talking about, when there was that big, post-Rodney King, there was a big reform movement in the LAPD.
The Los Angeles Police Department itself was forced to change in the wake of the Rodney King case, which highlighted widespread racism in the largely white, male force.
This became clear in 1991 when four policemen in Los Angeles pulled over a black man, Rodney King, for speeding and then beat him brutally, with other policemen watching.
As for Rodney King himself, he got engaged to one of the jurors from his trial and published a book in 2012 titled The Riot Within: My Journey From Rebellion to Redemption.
In the document, which announced his planned rampage, Dorner said nothing had changed in the LAPD since its scandals of the 1990s, the Rodney King beating and the Rampart police corruption case.
In a manifesto announcing his planned rampage, Dorner said nothing had changed in the LAPD since its scandals of the 1990s, the Rodney King beating and the Rampart police corruption case.
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The beating of Mr Denny was a long delayed reaction to another brutal beating, in March 1991, also caught on video-tape: that of a black motorist, Rodney King, by four white police officers.
Long before the uprisings on the streets of Ferguson or Baltimore, the 1992 L.A. riots in the wake of the first verdict in the Rodney King case had an undeniable effect on the city's urban youth.
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