Rodney Glen King (April 2, 1965Ā ā June 17, 2012) was an African American man who was a victim of police brutality. On March 3, 1991, he was severely beaten...
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1992 Los Angeles riots (redirect from Rodney King riots)
The 1992 Los Angeles riots (also called the South Central riots, Rodney King riots or the 1992 Los Angeles uprising) were a series of riots and civil...
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Rodney King is a 2017 American one-man show directed by Spike Lee and written by and starring Roger Guenveur Smith. The film is a one-man show where Roger...
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Stacey Koon (section Rodney King beating)
is one of the four police officers who were responsible for beating Rodney King in 1991. He was sentenced to 2+1ā2 years in federal prison in 1993 for...
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and misconduct within the LAPD was revealed to the public: the 1991 Rodney King beating led to the 1992 Los Angeles riots, while the 1997 Rampart scandal...
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Rod Thorn (redirect from Rodney King "Rod" Thorn)
Rodney King Thorn (born May 23, 1941) is an American basketball executive and a former professional player and coach, Olympic Committee Chairman, with...
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co-founded the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program. After the arrest of Rodney King and the subsequent riots, Gates retired from the LAPD. Much of the blame...
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acquittal of four Los Angeles Police Department officers in the beating of Rodney King and resulted in rioting, and looting, along with widespread violence...
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police departments in Los Angeles County in response to the ongoing Rodney King riots. The next day, the ATF activated its Special Response Team tactical...
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HMS Rodney was one of two Nelson-class battleships built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1920s. The ship entered service in 1928, and spent her peacetime...
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