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7 Mar, 2007 12:08 am
It's now illegal in France for nonprofessionals to film acts of violence. (Via Memeoradum.) ...16 years [ago] Los Angeles police officers beating Rodney King were filmed by amateur videographer George Holliday on the night of March 3, 1991. The officers'
acquittal at the end on April 29, 1992 sparked riots in Los Angeles. If Holliday were to film a similar scene of violence in France today, he could ...
14 Sep, 2008 10:28 am
After having the crap beaten out of him on a videotape that made its way into the national consciousness (not to mention a rather disturbing, if sub rosa, indictment of the way juries
get selected), Rodney King still managed to beg those outraged by the acquittal of his assailants to
stop destruction.1 It's pretty damned obvious that neither the Jackasses nor the Heffalumps or, at minimum, the
24 Aug 3:46 pm
BILL WHITTLE ON THE RODNEY KING AND KEN GLADNEY BEATINGS, and MSNBC's preferred narrative.
30 Nov, 2007 7:41 am
A helpful reader sent me news of this notable federal sentencing story from Wisconsin: Three fired Milwaukee police officers were sentenced to lengthy federal prison terms today for the
beating of Frank Jude Jr. Jon Bartlett, was sentenced to 17 years and four months. Daniel Masarik and Andrew Spengler were each sentenced to more than 15 years.... Bartlett said he had
been overwhelmed by everything that had happened since the October 2004 beating and was afraid for his future in explaining his ...
8 Jan 12:07 pm
The family of Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old father, who was fatally shot by transit police on a San Francisco area subway platform early New Year's Day, has now filed a $25 million dollar
lawsuit against Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). Grant was shot in the back while lying on the platform. The video (below) of this was all over the news. In many big cities, police
brutality is often responsible for a large portion of claims paid by the municipalities (that is, after malpractice in city hospitals). ...
6 Oct 9:25 am
Krout v. Sawdy, No. 08-2781 (8th Cir. Oct. 6, 2009) (here): Once [the motorist] was on the ground and no longer resisting, several patrons and employees of the Waffle House witnessed
two officers assault him. Harriet Stone witnessed one officer knee Rylee in the lower back four to six times while he was not moving, and saw another officer punch Rylee five or six
times in the mid-back area. Jeff Munhall saw one officer knee Rylee in the back while a second officer punched him in the head area - ...
12 Apr 3:34 am
... No winners only losers. The poster child for the costs of police brutality would be Rodney King.
Remember Rodney and the LA riots? And Reginald Denny? Do you remember him ... white colored crooks. They are our enemy, not each other. OPENING
NIGHT AT THE LA RIOTS [www.youtube.com] RODNEY KING ARREST [www.youtube.com] LA RIOTS AND REGINAL
DENNY [www.youtube.com ... King said it best, "Can we get along?" [www.youtube.com] This isn't a black and white issue, it's broader than race
relations. Woman arrested ...
19 Jan 4:59 am
... Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial. Interestingly, the "I have a dream" riff from Dr. King's 1963 speech was not an
original component, but rather a general hook ... Day marks how far technology has advanced since the 1991 videotaped beating of Rodney
King. The cell phone video recorded by BART rider Katrina Vargas shows ... USNavy From Manpower Employment Blawg: As we pause to reflect on Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. and his profound impact on the world, here are some of his mightiest ...
20 Nov, 2006 5:23 pm
... officer determines that full compliance has been achieved. Currently the incident is under review by a third part attorney that investigated the Rodney King beating (via the AP): An attorney who was part of a review of excessive force complaints following the
Rodney King beating will investigate a UCLA police officer's use of a Taser on an Iranian-American
student, the school said Friday. The move came in response to student demands voiced earlier Friday at ...
28 Apr, 2008 4:46 am
... cases of excessive force in which the officers have been acquitted in state court, the feds have pursued charges (the Rodney
King officers being the most obvious example), in other cases they have chosen not to pursue anything. Under the ... to the credibility of
prosecution witnesses, a problem likely to plague a federal prosecution--and there is no "objective" videotape a la Rodney King. I have not seen any suggestion that the judge engaged in nullification here or that the process was otherwise ...
8 Mar 6:18 pm
... with China should not be oversimplified. Speaking of oversimplification, today is also the day before the final episode of this season's Dr. Drew's Sober House. And here's the
connection: Rodney King is one of the residents of Sober House and he is also the person who so
famously asked the very ... a good story and I figure bringing in a reality TV show constitutes the expected "flair." So to quote Rodney
King (again), why can't we all just get along? What do you think? ...
2 Oct 7:46 pm
... , head butting is currently banned in the UFC and biting wasn't even legal in UFC 1. While I'm not above cracking wise on this situation, it is troubling... on both sides. We've
come a long way since Rodney King (who, young MMALB.com readers, was famous for his own arrest video
18 years ago, ultimately resulting in his own recent connection to combat sports) and any situation that is even arguably excessive force brings bad some bad memories. ...
20 Dec, 2007 5:20 am
Rodney King got one but Jeffrey Skilling didnt. Timothy McVeigh got one but Joseph Nacchio didnt.
Stanley Friedman got one. And Wesley Snipes wants one. What are we talking about, Law Blog readers? Why, were talking a change of venue. Mel Weiss wanted one too, as we told you last
month. The embattled class-action king and his firm Milberg Weiss face a criminal trial next summer in Los Angeles, and Weiss wanted the to
move the case to New York, where he lives. Being forced to defend ...
1 Mar, 2008 7:35 am
... school year, I happily reported to my grandfather that colleges--at least, the one I was attending--maybe weren't great bastions of liberalism after all. And then it happened. In
1991, Rodney King, an African American man, had been beaten by a group of police officers in Los
Angeles, ... crystal clear to me that the officers had well exceeded the amount of force necessary to subdue Mr. King. And they were all white.
What horrified me beyond the verdict and the violence, ...
1 Jul, 2008 9:19 pm
Medical malpractice lawyers in New York today released incredible surveillance camera video from Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, showing a 49 year-old woman dying on
the floor of a ... , 2008, and lying facedown on the floor, then thrashing wildly before going limp. A full hour passes before anyone bothered to try to help. Absolutely incredible
video that reminds me of the Rodney King incident. If it was not on video, no one would ever believe
that it happened as the plaintiffs' lawyers ...
4 Jul 10:55 am
... honest respect and appreciation. Conflict cannot exist in such an environment and harmony flourishes. December 2003 "Why Can't We All Just Get Along?" By Douglas E. Noll Many will
recall the plaintive call of Rodney King, the man whose vicious beating by members of the Los Angeles
police department was caught on video. Mr. King cried out, "Why can't we all just get along?" The reason we cannot always get along seems to be
based ...
25 Jul, 2006 10:15 pm
... Inc., the popular on-line video file sharing site, infringed its copyrighted video of truck driver Reginald Denny being beaten in Los Angeles in 1992 following the Rodney King verdict by hosting user content containing that footage. The case promises to further probe the
parameters of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, since YouTube limits video clip lengths to 10 minutes and does not appear to enable sharing ...
12 Oct, 2006 9:31 pm
It appears that I've left some footprints behind me. Not enough, however. YouTube was recently sued for copyright infringement, on the ground that it hosted the notorious video
depicting the beating of Reginald Denny in Los Angeles after the (almost incomprehensible) verdict in the state-court case against Rodney
King's attackers. YouTube recently answered the complaint. A large part of its
2 Nov, 2006 11:06 am
... corrupted by special interests and the constant pursuit of campaign cash. It matter little which party controls Congress writes Broder. Because the problem is NOT Iraq, Katrina, and
any Bush disaster you care to name, it is the lack of civility. Heck, his next column should cite Rodney King. Form over substance is the very essence of Broderism. I am glad he admits it.
16 Jun, 2006 11:16 am
... does something crazy like convict, you can always depend on trial judges or appeals court justices to reverse that - consider in general Stacy Koon & Larry Powell, the
Rodney King beaters, or Admiral Poindexter and Ollie North, the Iran-Contra folk, or the Rampart
Officers in Los Angeles). There have been proposals for stripping people of their rights to a jury trial in misdemeanors, to allow non-unanimous jury verdicts, ...
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