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7 Mar 2021, 4:24 am by SHG
It took the form of Latasha Harlins, the 15-year-old girl who, a year before the Rodney King verdict, was shot in the back of the head by a Korean store owner in an argument over a bottle of orange juice; the more than 2,000 Korean stores that were looted or burned to the ground during the riots that followed the verdict; the Korean men who carried rifles onto the roofs of their businesses in Koreatown and shot at looters who came near. [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]
26 Feb 2021, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
  The Library of Congress Acquires 200 Sketches of the Rodney King Police Brutality Trials (Fine Books & Collections). [read post]
17 Feb 2021, 12:00 pm by Brett Raffish
The Office of the Inspector General, established to review and evaluate specific LAPD activities and processes on behalf of and under the direction of the Board of Police Commissioners, was created by voters subsequent to the Rodney King incident in 1991 and the release of the Christopher Commission Report later that year. [read post]
27 Jan 2021, 11:36 am by Jason Rantanen
Chien, Nicholas Halkowski, Maria He, and Rodney Swartz, Parsing the Impact of Alice and the PEG, 2020 Patently-O Law Journal 20 (2020) (Chien.2020.ImpactOfAlice) Paul R. [read post]
11 Dec 2020, 12:25 pm by ACLU
Los Angeles, 1992 https://www.youtube.com/embed/2kuFZUQNvBo In 1991, a video emerged of California Highway Patrol officers brutally beating an unarmed Black man, Rodney King, during a traffic stop. [read post]
3 Nov 2020, 3:29 am by SHG
Even if we weren’t talking about a viewpoint supportive of white supremacist fascism I’m unclear why one would treat politics like a frat https://t.co/rsZYF73Q7o — Mia Brett (@QueenMab87) November 2, 2020 As Rodney King famously said, “Can’t we all just get along? [read post]
2 Nov 2020, 2:35 pm by Lindsay P. Cohn, Steve Vladeck
Bush did so in 1992 to help restore order during the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, there is no legal bar preventing President Trump from invoking the act in the coming days (or weeks) to deploy troops into American cities. [read post]
9 Oct 2020, 8:25 am by Jason Rantanen
Sarnoff, Derivation and Prior Art Problems with the New Patent Act, 2011 Patently-O Patent Law Journal 12 (sarnoff.2011.derivation.pdf) Bernard Chao, Not So Confidential: A Call for Restraint in Sealing Court Records, 2011 Patently-O Patent Patent Law Journal 6 (chao.sealedrecords.pdf) Benjamin Levi and Rodney R. [read post]
6 Oct 2020, 9:00 pm by Joseph Margulies
“If you could change one thing about policing in the United States, what would it be? [read post]
2 Oct 2020, 5:32 pm by David Bernstein
In fact, while there was undoubtedly some violence that was a direct response to the Rodney King verdict, most of those arrested in the riots were Mexican-American criminals who took the opportunity to loot. [read post]
10 Sep 2020, 7:25 am by Jason Rantanen
Sarnoff, Derivation and Prior Art Problems with the New Patent Act, 2011 Patently-O Patent Law Journal 12 (sarnoff.2011.derivation.pdf) Bernard Chao, Not So Confidential: A Call for Restraint in Sealing Court Records, 2011 Patently-O Patent Patent Law Journal 6 (chao.sealedrecords.pdf) Benjamin Levi and Rodney R. [read post]
30 Aug 2020, 8:13 am by John Floyd
  “Going back at least to the 1968 Kerner Commission report which examined police practices nationwide, Peter Maas’s biography and subsequent movie of New York police officer Frank Serpico’s attempt to root out police corruption in that city in the 1970s and, more recently, investigations into the Rodney King beating in Los Angeles, the Michael Brown shooting in St. [read post]
25 Jul 2020, 8:11 am by John Floyd
Bush during the 1992 Los Angeles “Rodney King” riots to deploy the U.S. [read post]
25 Jun 2020, 1:32 pm by David Super
  Their focus was the acquittal of the four police officers that brutalized Rodney King by an all-white Simi Valley jury, but Trump associates shielded by William Barr’s Justice Department raises some of the same concerns. [read post]
19 Jun 2020, 3:06 pm by Jonathan H. Adler
With respect to the Monell claim, the evidence against the City includes the Chris Rock video, played as part of its use-of-force training for officers, in which the comedian makes remarks about Rodney King and police misconduct that are highly inappropriate for law-enforcement instruction. [read post]
Prior to the riots in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the costliest U.S. civil disorder occurred after the acquittal of police officers involved with the arrest and beating of a black American, Rodney King, from April 29 through May 4, 1992, causing $775 million in insured losses.[2] More recently, there were approximately $24 million in insured losses following the death of Freddie Gray, a black American who died in police custody after suffering a spinal cord injury.[3] Insured losses… [read post]