The Rodney King Beating

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*Get out the car, get out the car NOW!* *don’t move or will use force* after that night a man life changed for the worst. As you all may or may not know Rodney king was beating half to death by someone who is supposed to protect us as citizen, but instead the “law” is killing or damaging our “BLACK” men lives. In my reported I look into one of the hardest crimes in the early 90s. “The Rodney King Beating”. Ill also be interviewing my grandmother who was the same age as Mr. King during the incident. Rodney “Glen” King was born on April 2, 1965 in Sacramento, California, with four siblings and a loving mother, and an alcoholic father. Rodney soon began to follow in his father’s footsteps of a lifetime of alcohol abuse. Which …show more content…
He was in his 1987 Hyundai Excel when he was drunk driving along the Foothill Freeway in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles with his two friends. It was reported that king alcohol level was about 0.19% while he was driving. State laws in Los Angeles shows that your blood level has to be a 0.08% in order to operate a vehicle. At 12:30 a.m. officer Tim and Melanie Singer noticed king’s car speeding on the freeway. They got behind him and order him to pull his vehicle over for speeding, king refused to do so causing him to pursuit a high-speed chase with the cops. King drove as fast as hundred and seventeen miles per hour, when king finally pulled over officer Tim singer order king and his two passenger to exit the vehicle and to lie face down on the ground. The group of officer who were chasing him down tried to forcibly subdue king and used a Taser sever times, Bryant Allen manhandle, kicked, and stomped, taunted and threatened. Two officers, Laurence Powell and Timothy Wind, began beating on king with their nightsticks. As the third officer Theodore Briseno, started kicking him in the head multiply times. King grabbed his buttocks when Officer Melanie Singer took thought he was reaching for a weapon when she pointed her pistol at king, ordering to stay down on the ground while she preparing to effect an arrest. These cops had to be …show more content…
Jackson the list goes on. We can seat around and cry and complain about what is not been done about this but anything won’t get done unless we take a stand and get our voices heard, not in a ruthless or violent way but in a way we can keep our lives and get pour voices heard. Kendrick Lamar and Beyoncé can sing and rap about the world but if no action is put behind it then nothing will get done. Let s help these mothers and families who lost their kids and parents the time is now. Take a stand and make noise until the world understand the message “BLACK LIVES MATTER” “WE MATTER TO THE WORLD” “SLAVERY IS

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