police brutality such as the cases of Rodney King‚ Timothy Thomas‚ and Eric Garner. Many people feel that nothing has changed with the issue of police brutality since juries still acquitted police officers‚ cops get their jobs back‚ and brutality happens again. But change has occurred and some things have become better as a result of it being publicized and causing public outrage. Police brutality has been occurring for many years. In the case of Rodney King videotape recorded by a bystander captured
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[and] thousands of jobs lost” (Matheson and Baade 1). Hate crimes and racism were also running rampant. Grigsby Bates discusses how white and light skinned individuals were pulled out of cars and motorcycles and were beaten. Shortly after the Rodney King beatings‚ a young black girl was shot dead by a Korean store owner after the store owner thought that the girl was stealing juice. The girl was found with the money in her hand that she was going to use to pay for the juice. The woman who owned
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rioting and potential death. Yet in this particular situation‚ people followed the laws and held protests that were peaceful without any violence. There have times when situations did end in violence and death. The rioting that occurred in the Rodney King case is a perfect example of how the people follow the rules. The mob mentality resulted in over six days of rioting‚ 53 deaths‚ and over 2‚000 people being injured. The mob mentality is a situation where people group together and in anger lose
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to “protest.” Twenty-four years later people still remember the horrific incident. April 1992‚ four white police officers were acquitted of a savage beating on a man named Rodney King. This act of aggression was called a “lynching on video‚” and because of this‚ Los Angeles was a giant mosh pit. The infamous video of Rodney King being beaten set off six days of rioting in Los Angeles and surrounding cities. Within those six days‚ people were killed and injured‚
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Twilight Los Angeles; 1992 very accurately depicts the L.A. Riots. It shows the hardships the citizens of L.A. Underwent during one of the cities most devastating tragedies. The monologues that Smith chooses all show the relationship between greater things than the L.A. Riots such as prejudice and tolerance‚ guilt and innocence‚ and class conflicts. These are all issues that are very prominent in most of the monologues. The actual events provide the focus‚ and stated or implied a reference point
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chemical sprays‚ electro-shock weapons‚ batons‚ dogs‚ flashlights‚ radios‚ and guns (Police Brutality). Police brutality cases have received more attention due to some of the high profile cases that have reached the media‚ for example‚ The Rodney King case. Rodney‚ a 25 year old‚ unemployed construction worker from Altadena‚ on parole after serving a one-year
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television in the later years‚ became more ideological than just a form of escapism.” (Caldwell‚ p. 651) The way in which criminals are apprehended in these crime dramas depicts a closer relation to the evolution of real life. From the video tape of Rodney King to the fall of the Rampart Division‚ police officers over time have advanced more toward violence and major manipulation‚ i.e. corruption. [Thesis] The evolution of change within the structure of crime-courtroom dramas with the comparison of Perry
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Los Angeles Police Department‚ and a civilian named Rodney King. “According to official reports‚ the car’s two passengers quickly and lay on the ground as instructed. But‚ when the driver King‚ finally emerged from the car‚ his bizarre behavior and spotty compliance with police orders led officers to believe he was drunk‚ or high on PCP.” (Falkenrath and Rosegrant‚ 2016) This led to the use of a stun gun‚ and then the use of batons striking King more than two dozen times. These events would have probably
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corrupt they are scared to even call them because they believe that they might not even take them serious and let them fall to the wayside. Corruption in America can negatively affect the public’s faith in the law. Many viewed in the media the Rodney King beating
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In society‚ people socially construct institution based on sensory perception. Race is in fact a social construct made from systems of constitutive rules. It is used to generalize people into specific groups characterized by supposedly distinctive and universal physical characteristics. Although humans have created this entity‚ there are many sources that provide proof that race is impossible to define biologically. Since colonization began‚ humans have been given racial identities which continue
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