ipl-logo

Injustice: A Riot In Los Angeles

191 Words1 Page

Basically this piece of article talked about how there were riot in Los Angeles because of the beating of felon Rodney King whom was chased by four police men and nearly beaten to death. While beaten by four police men by their batons and being kicked someone filmed the whole thing and the news quickly played the video for the country and all African Americans start to block roads and streets. After that they hold the trial with only twelve people in the court and no blacks are allowed in the court and the four police men get minor charges and all the African Americans start rioting again. At the time there was a lot of racist individuals and when four police men were filmed beating Rodney King all hell broke loose. This was months before the

Show More
Related

  • Essay On The Rodney King Riots

    1353 Words  | 6 Pages

    The Rodney King Riot happened in Los Angeles in the year of 1992. Rodney King was an African American male who was arrested on charges because of speeding, drunk driving, and refusing to stop his vehicle. Four police officers who have claimed to have witnessed King’s actions such as being high on drugs and was trying to attack them explains why they did what they did. A resident nearby by the name of George Holliday captured about 12 minutes of the attack on film. King was tasered, brutally beaten with side-handled batons, then forced to the ground to lie still which was where he was handcuffed.

    Read More

  • Summary Of Whose Streets By Bob Hughes

    1149 Words  | 5 Pages

    In the Saint Louis American, I discovered an article, “Ferguson, equity and health, three years later”, written by Bob Hughes. The article talks about Ferguson and the death of Michael Brown Jr. that occurred on August 9, 2014. He mentioned the spark of the protests and rallies in response to Michael Brown Jr.’s death, and Ferguson’s respond to police brutality, racial profiling and the disproportionate rate of injustices among black people. Hughes main focus was on the aftermath of the protests, now that three years have passed, to see if progress has been made.

    Read More

  • LA Riot Of 1992: A Summary And Analysis

    1621 Words  | 7 Pages

    When it comes to race and class struggles, there is always a debate. On May 1992, the city of Los Angeles witnessed an uprise in its citizens. Following the acquittal of four police office in the beating of a black man, riots began to breakout in the city. Looking at the different media coverages around that time, there are noticeable differences in their coverages and how class is used to describe the incidents. In this paper I will analyze how, through the use of imagery, word choices such as ‘rioters’, and the shifting of blame, the media played a significant role through their coverages in the King Trial, and ultimately the LA Riots of 1992.

    Read More

  • Riots In Zoot Suit By Luis Valdez

    567 Words  | 3 Pages

    Another example of teetering racial hate is the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. In an article written by CNN, the author says, “March 3, 1991 - Rodney King is beaten by LAPD officers after King leads police on a high-speed chase through Los Angeles County.” (CNN). In other words, Rodney King unintentionally begins one of the most memorable riots in history. This is important because over the next five days fifty people will go on to die with more the two thousand injured.

    Read More

  • Who Is Michael Brown: Fair Or Unfair?

    587 Words  | 3 Pages

    Everything didn 't relate to the story. The Question is “So why did Ferguson police opt to release surveillance video of the convenience-store incident Friday” (Botelho, Lemon, 2004). No ones could ever understand the statement from the Ferguson Police

    Read More

  • How Did The Rodney King Trial Cause Conflict In America

    2046 Words  | 9 Pages

    Since the beating of King was taped and shown to the general public many people began to take sides and express their views on how they felt. This caused major conflict in LA and around America, specifically

    Read More

  • Analysis Of The Los Angeles Walkouts

    102 Words  | 1 Pages

    The Los Angeles Walkouts was a protest act for Latinos to raise the issue of prejudice among teachers and administration for Mexican American students. (Simpson, 2012) On March 6, 1968, students currently enrolled in Abraham Lincoln High School in East L.A. orchestrated a walkout to express their opinion of their poor classroom education. Mexican Americans believed the educators were offering only vocational and trade careers. Chicano believed educators were not allowing them to attempt at four-year unversity.

    Read More

  • Media Influence On Ferguson

    1199 Words  | 5 Pages

    Instead of addressing the racial injustice, they speak of the riots and protests against police officers by black individuals. The tragedy of the entire event isn’t even references in the NY Post, which straightaway appeals to supporters of the law enforcement system, inflaming readers with bold statements such as, “We have two more cops who were ambushed because of their uniforms,” (Inflaming Ferguson, NY Post). Although Washington Times can admit that such an event is a tragedy, they do display more noticeable support for the police departments. They go so far as to admit that, in their viewpoint, “a tragedy occurred, but a crime did not” (A tragedy in Ferguson, but the crime is the work of race hustlers, Washington Times). The appeal isn’t directed towards any civil rights activists with these two news sources, as NY Post has said, “The whole ‘hands up, don’t shoot’ narrative promoted by activists and the media was false from the start” (NY Post).

    Read More

  • Rodney King Riots Research Paper

    1121 Words  | 5 Pages

    Rodney King Riots Protest Movement Paper On April 29, 1992, A week of non stop urban violence and mayhem erupted in the streets and cities of Los Angeles, the riots were commenced by the unjust trial that let the four white police officers set free of any charges. All four officers were captured on videotape beating on a black motorist named, Rodney King after a traffic stop gone wild. The Rodney King riots impacted society greatly by presenting the nations people with an understanding of how racism was still present in america. A reminder that "justice for all" was still a long way off being set in stone and to followed by most people.

    Read More

  • How Has Race Relations Changed Since The 1930s

    562 Words  | 3 Pages

    Incidents concerning racism are now receiving a lot of media attention. Twenty-five years ago, a group of police officers beating on a black person would not have gotten as much media attention as the Rodney King incident. Rodney King was an African-American who was pulled over and beaten by four Los Angeles police officers for reckless driving while under the influence of an illegal substance. That unfortunate event was pivotal in the sense that the whole world gained consciousness on what was really going on as far as racial tension was concerned. There have been many other publicized incidents in the news after the Rodney King incident.

    Read More

  • Police Brutality Effect On Race

    165 Words  | 1 Pages

    This is a great example on why police brutality is an ongoing topic and why so many people see police officers as bad and untrustworthy people. But the media tends to hide the details, are we getting the whole story or are there things

    Read More

  • The Baltimore Riots

    1012 Words  | 5 Pages

    American mobs and rioting was not a nineteenth century Baltimorean invention. The colonial American mobs opposing British imperial measures was similar to the bread riots described by E.P. Thompson; crowds acted to re-establish “just price,” set by custom and ancient law, and violated by grain merchants. Occasionally a mob would destroy property, as seen in the famous Boston Tea Party or in the destruction of Governor Thomas Hutchinson’s house in 1765. However, the mob rarely acted violently towards individual persons with the intent to kill or inflict harm.

    Read More

  • Liberty City Riots

    364 Words  | 2 Pages

    We learned that over the last 40 years the police department of the City of Miami and Miami- Dade County have experienced their share of civil disturbances. To illustrate, there have four cases of race riots between both police departments which led to innovation to be involved in their pursuits to better their responses. These were the race riots in 1968, the Liberty City Riot, 1980, the McDuffie Riot, 1982 Luis Alvarez Riots, and 1989 Loranzo Riots within the Liberty City over town areas. However, the article stated that these riots were resulted by either police shooting of young black men, or thanks to the federal government the deporting of a young Cuban boy. Thus, it was not until the civil arrest of the 1980’s McDuffie Riot which seemed

    Read More

  • Police Brutality In The Black Community

    1111 Words  | 5 Pages

    Para 1.) “After police shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old. The fatal gunshots, fired by a white police officer, Darren Wilson, on 9 August 2014, were followed by bursts of anger, in the form of protests and riots. Hundreds and then thousands, of local residents, had flooded the streets. The killing of Michael Brown created a new generation of black activists, with thousands taking to the streets, and a hashtag used more than 27m times.

    Read More

  • Police Brutality Annotated Bibliography Summary

    1391 Words  | 6 Pages

    • Grigsby Bates is a Los Angeles based correspondent for National Public Radio news and has authored published books. She focuses on cultural and international issues, as well as reporting of general news. NPR.org is a neutral news source that provides reliable and unbiased information. • This article and website will be useful in adding views of the Rodney King riots in a form that is looking back on the event. Most of my sources are published during the 1990s, so I think this will be beneficial in adding a source that looks at the event from a different point of view instead of writing about it shortly after it occurred.

    Read More

More about Injustice: A Riot In Los Angeles

Open Document