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20 Feb 2011, 1:59 am
When police-beaten Rodney King uttered those words nearly two decades ago, I am not so sure that many took much notice -- even with the 24-hour cable news chatter.Since then, as the Internet has allowed everyone to communicate with everyone, and our politics have become so very polarized, common courtesy has at times been kicked to the curb much like Mr. [read post]
18 Jun 2012, 4:10 am by Andrew Ramonas
Dead: Rodney King, whose beating at the hands of Los Angeles police officers helped trigger the 1992 L.A. riots, died on Sunday at 47, the Los Angeles Times reports. [read post]
19 Sep 2007, 11:44 am
Poindexter's attorney also obtained ham sandwich indictments against Lincoln Police and Fire Department personnel in 1995 from Lincoln's 1994 "Rodney King" wannabe Renteria. [read post]
8 Jan 2009, 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). [read post]
1 May 2008, 7:00 am
Cameras had been recommended by the Christopher Commission, which investigated the LAPD in the wake of the beating of motorist Rodney King by LAPD officers - a beating captured on videotape by a civilian. [read post]
23 Nov 2014, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
“As Ferguson waits, some lessons from the Rodney King riots” [Radley Balko] “ACLU wins federal court orders on right to video police in Ferguson, elsewhere” [St. [read post]
5 Jan 2012, 3:38 pm by Ken
Since Rodney King, we've been told that citizens with video cameras will deter excessive force by law enforcement. [read post]
8 Dec 2011, 6:08 pm by Eric Turkewitz
Usually, when you see and hear cop videos and recordings on the web it is part of the a condemnation of conduct, going back to the Rodney King beating video up to the UC Davis Occupy protest where Lt. [read post]
31 Jul 2015, 8:44 am by Sean F. Leslie
These mishaps began to enter the public consciousness with the  Rodney King video release, and continue through situations like the  Trayvon Martin case in Florida. [read post]
11 Jul 2010, 12:57 pm by Buce
Weekend meme: Obama #1 is Bush #3.It's a tempting thought as we watch our President morph into the Rodney King of American politics--savagely beaten around the head and shoulders, only to emerge with a plaintive "can't we all get along? [read post]
15 May 2007, 5:56 am
That ethos has been on display before: the use of clubs and tear gas to disperse 15,000 peaceful anti- war protesters in in 1967, the Watts riots, the 1991 Rodney King beating, the harsh crackdown on demonstrators at the 2000 Democratic National Convention. [read post]
14 Jul 2013, 12:35 pm by Howard Wasserman
Not § 242, because Zimmerman did not act under color of state law (thus depriving the right wing of its most obvious demagogic analogue--the LAPD officers who beat up Rodney King). [read post]
4 Nov 2010, 1:31 pm
  That question posed by Rodney King is something I have been thinking about this election week. [read post]