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Rodney King Conflict Case Study

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In this essay, I will be writing about a major conflict that occurred between two groups in our world history. The conflict I will be writing about is the Rodney King case. I had chosen this conflict because similar events to the Rodney King case, are recurring in our world today.
The beating of Rodney King is a case in which the Los Angeles Police Department had brutally beaten up an African American citizen known as Rodney King. The Los Angeles Police Department and Rodney King were in a high-speed car chase when finally Rodney King had been stopped by LAPD and pulled out of his car and began getting brutally beaten by LAPD. This event took place on the night of March 3, 1991, on the San Fernando valley freeway in Los Angeles.

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