Simi Valley, California

was held in Simi Valley in a “white” suburb area in Los Angeles. The jury had no african americans, ten white people, one hispanic, and one asian person. Most of the african americans were furious with the event because this was police brutality, and most thought it was a hate crime on african americans. The case lasted about three months, and the end result of the case made most african american furious. Two of the police officers were found guilty and charged with criminal offense and also charged with deadly weapon. The other two police officers were not found guilty and made african americans furious of that decision the court made. African americans were furious in the first place of how the event happened so this decision topped it off, as almost all african americans were destructive in Los Angeles. African americans were destructive in Los Angeles, they destroyed everything in their path, including stores, homes of opposite race, and the Los Angeles streets were taken over by minorities. African american Gangs that hated each other formed an alliance to fight off every police officer in Los Angeles. More than fifty people were killed during the riots, nine thousand-five hundred were arrested, and two-thousand were injured. These riots weren’t a one night thing, these riots happened for weeks at a time. The rioting destroyed or damaged over 1,000 buildings in the Los Angeles area. The estimated cost of the damages was over $1 billion. More than 9,800 California…

The report I chose was retrieved from ABC News and written by reporter Dennis Romero, addressing the heartbreaking shooting of an unarmed African American male name Stephon Clark who lived in Sacramento, California. This tragedy initiated a large protest by the Black Lives Matter movement in the Sacramento area. It affected the local community and an event in the community all day on a Thursday, March 22, 2018. The local community the protestors affected were five expressed highways. Protestors…

The flawed emergency response to the 1992 LA riots Institution Affiliated Date Introduction The organization from which the case study is based is the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) which is the law enforcement agency for Los Angeles, California, United States of America. The problem herein referred to in the case study emanates from the 1992 Los Angeles Riots that were in response of what became to be known as police brutality. The problem is particularly a conflict between the LAPD…

Rodney King III was an American taxi driver who became world known after being beaten by Los Angeles Police Department, followed by a high-speed car chase on March 3, 1991. The crimes that occurred in 1992 Los Angeles riots, also known as the Rodney King riots. These riots consisted of lootings, arsons, civil disturbance and deaths throughout Los Angeles, California. The riot of the Rodney Kings’ police brutality case began on April 29, 1992 with a protest that shortly began after the…

On April 29, 1992 began a riot later called The Rodney king riots. This riot began because the four white police officers who brutally beat Rodney King, a black man, didn’t get convicted for the crime. The “not guilty” verdict was carried live , which made the people’s anger escape and minutes later that day the riots started through South Central on Florence & Normandie and ended with everything getting burned. Many people got injured like Reginald Denny who got caught in the streets by Damian…

Los Angeles heavy metal band, Body Count, found themselves in the middle of censorship disputes with the release of their self-titled album in March 1992. The main issue surrounded Ice-T’s lyrics in the song, “Cop Killer” which was deemed to encourage violence towards police. Calls to Time Warner to discontinue distribution of the track gained in popularity when the song was publically condemned by Vice President Dan Quayle. There were also appeals to boycott all Time Warner media from the…

The LA Riots were a huge event that transpired in 1992. They occurred after a man named Rodney King was beaten to death by four police officers. He was kicked while on the concrete. Police brutality has always been a heavy issue in America and there have been numerous amounts of incidents that involve police brutality. The police force has changed since the riots occurred and have fewer incidents that are categorized as brutality. Police brutality has been present for forever. There have been…

connection with the beating. Not only did the jury refuse to indict seventeen officers who stood by while Mr. King was being beaten and did nothing but Judge Weinsberg ordered the trial of the four officers charged to be moved to Simi Valley. Simi Valley is an all white community who easily acquitted the four Los Angeles police officers of the Rodney King beating. In the spring of 1992 when the news reached the ears of African Americans living in South Central riots broke out and lasted five…

Simi Valley has only relatively recently become the city it is known as today. Prior to the 1970’s, Simi Valley had been mainly a place of groves and farmland. Also prior to that, this was the land of the Chumash which is where the word Simi originated from. While most of the people of Simi are of European descent, there seems to be a strong community of hispanic people. There are also people from Asian backgrounds, African American backgrounds, and Native American backgrounds. On the surface…

Ward Elementary School in Las Vegas. The Nevada state capitol building is made of Sandstone as was the former United States mint. Sandstone makes up most of Nevada’s amazing scenery and is found throughout the state of Nevada in areas like the Valley of Fire State Park and Red Rock Canyon Recreational Lands. The state trees are the Bristlecone Pine and Single-leaf Piñon (or pinyon) The Bristlecone Pine was made an official state tree in 1987 while the Single-leaf Pinyon was made one in 1953.…