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Los Angeles (AFP) - Three decades ago, a bystander's grainy video of US police officers savagely beating a motorist eventually led to their trial. Their acquittal a year later for the attack on Rodney King set Los Angeles ablaze, as anger over police violence erupted across the city, with riots that left dozens dead and wrought $1 billion in damage. Now the United States is once again bracing for fury with the release of footage of five Memphis policemen pummeling 29-year-old Tyre Nichols. He died of his injuries three days later on January 10. The five, all of whom are Black, have been fired...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Black and Asian community leaders gathered in Los Angeles on Friday to mark 30 years since the US city was engulfed in violence in the wake of the acquittal of four police officers for the brutal beating of Rodney King. Dozens died and a billion dollars of damage were wrought as anger flared across the multi-ethnic city following the verdicts, which came despite graphic footage of the assault on the Black motorist. "My late father, Rodney King, became synonymous with police brutality to some people. But our family remembers him as a human being -- not a symbol," Lora King, ...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A multi-ethnic group of Los Angeles community leaders will gather on Friday, marking 30 years since their city was engulfed in a wave of violence following the acquittal of white police officers for the beating of Rodney King, a Black man. The deadly 1992 Los Angeles riots inflamed deep-seated tensions across America's second largest city, as fury in the Black community at racial injustice boiled over and Korean-American and other immigrant shopkeepers bore the brunt of the carnage. "There's nothing romantic, nothing enticing, nothing beautiful about celebrating what happen...
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