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14 Sep 2017, 8:00 am by Daniel Perlman
The Rodney King Case The videotaped beating of Rodney King in March of 1991 in Lake View Terrace in the far reaches of the San Fernando Valley, was a shocking display of police violence to almost all who saw it. [read post]
8 Dec 2022, 7:01 am by Reference Staff
From the oft used “thousand yard stare” defense, to ignoring their own de-escalation, nonlethal weapons, and restraint training, to faulty situation perception, and beyond, Harmening deconstructs real life scenarios and uses them to encourage police departments to do better.While Harmening dedicates the better part of The Deadly Force Script to his case studies, he does open the book with a brief history of deadly force cases and discusses the impact of societal shifts, such as… [read post]
8 Jul 2013, 10:47 am
Martin’s death would be a story of justice denied, an all-too common insult that to them places Trayvon Martin’s name next to those of Rodney King, Amadou Diallo and other black men who were abused, beaten or killed by police officers. [read post]
The same kind of argument could as easily have been made with respect to the Abu Ghraib photos, the Rodney King video, or the Eric Garner video. [read post]
17 Apr 2021, 3:59 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Looking at recent cases, the bill would affect Dillon Puente in Keller but not Rodney Reese in Plano. [read post]
18 Nov 2014, 7:38 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Make me philosopher king and I'd require recording of all custodial interrogations, but this is a good start. [read post]
1 Mar 2021, 11:04 am by ACLU
As a student at Smith College and Yale Law School, she recalls participating in and organizing protests in response to racism on campus, the Rodney King verdict, and divestment from South African apartheid. [read post]
23 Mar 2013, 6:14 am by Gritsforbreakfast
In the House, bills by Moody and McLendon are on the agenda, while in Senate Criminal Justice, Rodney Ellis' SB 1611 comes up to bat. [read post]
22 Nov 2021, 11:00 am by Shreya Tewari
Notably, a bystander recorded LA officers beating Rodney King on a Sony video camera almost 30 years ago. [read post]
27 Nov 2014, 9:24 am by Michael Lumer
Judges routinely instruct juries that the fact that a witness is an officer does not make his or her testimony more or less credible, but that instruction is virtually meaningless; jurors, like everyone else, perceive the evidence before them through a prism embedded far too deeply to be ignored on command.When Rodney King was brutally beaten and stomped in Los Angeles 23 years ago, much of the country was shocked. [read post]
5 Feb 2019, 7:15 am
A few years ago, due to the proliferation of cell phone cameras, police killings of black men, including the strangling of Eric Garner and the murder of Walter Scott, began to be frequently recorded  in shocking detail — something that previously occurred only in the rarest of circumstances, such as with the Los Angeles Police Department beating of Rodney King in 1991. [read post]
14 Jul 2013, 3:31 pm by David Oscar Markus
“People are comparing this case to Rodney King, where there was a federal prosecution after a state acquittal, but the difference there was there were witnesses, specifically the video everyone still remembers,” Tannebaum said, referring to a man’s sensational videotape of the police beating. [read post]
4 Aug 2013, 8:43 pm by admin
Similarly, the infamous Rodney King trial, which resulted in the acquittal of the LAPD officers that brutally beat King following a high speed car chase, ended with a civil rights lawsuit. [read post]
28 Sep 2021, 4:49 pm by Suhre & Associates
A horrific example of police brutality is the Rodney King case in Los Angeles in 1991. [read post]