THE 1992 LA UPRISING / RODNEY KING
Episode 216 | Historical Events
In this History episode we focus on the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising — the six days of unrest that followed the acquittal of four LAPD officers in the beating of Rodney King, killing 63 people, injuring 2,567, and causing over $1 billion in damage. We begin with George Holliday's 81-second video, the trial moved to predominantly white Simi Valley, and the jury with no Black members — and then trace the structural conditions that made the verdict a detonator rather than just a verdict.
We examine the Christopher Commission's findings of a siege mentality in an LAPD…
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