Tipping Point Of Police Brutality

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As a group we believe that the tipping point of police brutality was the Rodney King beating which happened in Los Angeles, California. This event that happened in Los Angeles, California, took place on March 3rd, 1991. It happened, because he was on a high speed chase with the Los Angeles police department. When the officers stopped King they pulled him out of his car and brutally beat him. There were four L.A.P.D officers that were involved and they were sitting on charges of "assault with a deadly weapon and excessive use of force by a police officer" (Biography.com). After, there was a three- month trial, which was a predominantly a white jury did not charge the officers with these charges, which enraged citizens and sparking a violent

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