The beating of King 30 years ago this month, captured on a Sony Video8 Handycam by a plumber named, one many assumed would lead to guilty verdicts for the officers
Chauvin faces charges of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. The 46-year-old Texas native had a past that included a college football scholarship, hip hop aspirations and volunteerism at a church, along with multiple run-ins with police, drug addiction and time in prison for armed robbery.
If you fast-forward the videotape of history since King was beaten, other Black people have died at the hands of police, some caught on cellphone videos, others not. Their names include Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Philando Castile and Breonna Taylor. After watching the news broadcast of Holliday’s video, Bakewell called Los Angeles City Council members, friends and other activists.
"I was like, this guy is not only expressing his opinion, but he's expressing the opinion of a lot of people," he said. “And when I heard that, there was something about it that said to me the cops are going to get off." “You could just feel the tension, the hate, the racial conflicts,” he said. “It’s all thick in the air.”at the time an assistant professor at California State Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo, California,“It was like watching a war,” said Chang, 64, a professor of ethnic studies at the University of California at Riverside and founding director of the Young Oak Kim Center for Korean American Studies. “It was a nightmare. People’s lifetime savings became ashes overnight.
After a brief moment of celebrity anchored by his famous plea, “Why can’t we all just get along?” King wrote a memoir, battled addiction and was found dead in his swimming pool in 2012. His daughter Lora King, 37, runs the Rodney King Foundation, a social justice advocacy group.The legal maneuverings in the King case could shape the outcome of the Chauvin trial, said some of the lawyers involved in those proceedings.
Another area of concern, experts said, is the $27 million settlement received by Floyd's family members. That news resulted in theand said they could no longer be impartialdid not copy the King script and ensure that the civil trial was delayed so its verdict wouldn’t affect Chauvin's criminal trial.
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Should look into drug reform since drugs caused his death.
Change is needed for sure. Sift out bad apples from the good.