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The Effects Of The Beating Of Rodney King

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Los Angles, California in year 1991, a significant event would happen and change LA for the worst. That event is the Beating of Rodney King, what had happen was police attempted to pull him over in San Fernando Valley, but instead he tried to evade the cops because he violate his parole for a prior robbery. Once Rodney was caught by the police, he resisted arrest and they assumed that he was under the influence of narcotics as a result the police severely beat down Rodney for 15 min. The beating was even caught on tape and the four police officers were in trial for police brutality and racial profiling, but the verdict was not guilty which caused uproar of violence among the African American Community. That wasn’t the only event that caused

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