The Rodney King incident is an event that took place on March 3, 1991. Rodney King was pulled over by Los Angeles police after a high-speed chase. When the officers were able to finally to seize Mr. King they pulled him out of his vehicle and almost beat him to death. What the four police officers didn’t know is that they were being recorded by a civilian name George Holliday. After the video got to release the four officers were charges with assault with a deadly weapon and excessive use of force. However, the four men were acquitted after a three-month trail by a predominantly white jury. When the verdict got out citizens were upset, and that cause them to spark a riot and the violent that went on in the streets of Los Angeles in 1992.
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Gruwell is successful with the students when no other teachers are not, is because she cared about the kids and actually wanted them to graduate. Unlike the others teachers she went the extra mileages and took the time it needed to make the students understand the material. When the students were having problems she listened to them, when they need a ride home she took the time out of her day to take the student home, she even got two extra jobs to buy the students books the were up to date, and she used her own money to pay for a field trip for the students and had her father picked the kids that needed a ride there. Ms. Gruwell had success with those kid because she tried to understand them even though she couldn’t relate to some of the everyday struggles that they were going through on a daily base. Another the reason I believe she had so much success is because the students saw that they actually had someone that cared about them and wanted them to make, so they put in the work that was needed not to let her down. When someone never had a person cared about them they don’t know how it feel to have the support, so what I believe Mr. Gruwell did she showed those students that she cared about them and she was not going to give up on them no matter
Gruwell is successful with the students when no other teachers are not, is because she cared about the kids and actually wanted them to graduate. Unlike the others teachers she went the extra mileages and took the time it needed to make the students understand the material. When the students were having problems she listened to them, when they need a ride home she took the time out of her day to take the student home, she even got two extra jobs to buy the students books the were up to date, and she used her own money to pay for a field trip for the students and had her father picked the kids that needed a ride there. Ms. Gruwell had success with those kid because she tried to understand them even though she couldn’t relate to some of the everyday struggles that they were going through on a daily base. Another the reason I believe she had so much success is because the students saw that they actually had someone that cared about them and wanted them to make, so they put in the work that was needed not to let her down. When someone never had a person cared about them they don’t know how it feel to have the support, so what I believe Mr. Gruwell did she showed those students that she cared about them and she was not going to give up on them no matter