A current event that has happened was the twenty fifth anniversary of the LA riots. These people went crazy on the streets because of what happened to They were mad because racial injustice and police brutality was a huge problem that was going on. They were specifically mad about what happened a year earlier in 1951 to Rodney King. In 1951 a black man named Rodney King was caught on tape being beat by LA police officers. He was kicked and hit after he was pulled over following a high speed chase. Later in 1952 a jury found the four LA police officers who had beaten Rodney King almost to death. Three of these officers were white and one of them was hispanic. They all went to court and were found not guilty of the crime of assault. This unfair incident was what caused everyone to start to go crazy by robbing banks, destroying buildings by setting them on fire and killing or injuring many different people. Violence was filling LA because of the riots. More than fifty people were killed. More 2,300 people were injured. And a billion dollars worth of damage was caused. People were running around breaking in homes, shops, restaurants, everywhere and killing and injuring people. These people were trying to make a stand for Rodney king. Rodney King was treated unfairly twice. first he was beat almost to death and then the people who did this to him were let go and called not guilty. Within an hour of the trial where the four men, who beat Rodney King, were said not guilty the people started going to the streets to go crazy to show that hey knew that this was unfair. While the riot was happening Rodney King made a speech where he said “Can we all get along, can we get along.” This incident caused the police officers to change some of their ways. They are now encouraged to use non lethal weapons like pepper spray and stunt guns. And video cameras in police cars are common to record encounters. Now they have a lot more variety of races and genders they are now almost fifty percent hispanic and twenty percent women where as they used to be a majority of male white. I think that we should be fair in everything that we do and say. We should use this incident to learn. And black lives do matter.
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