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U.S. Jury Indicts 4 Police Officers In King Beating  August 6, 1992 ... 5 -- Three months after a state jury acquitted four Los Angeles police officers on ... off deadly riots, a Federal grand jury here has indicted the same four men on ... of his 14th Amendment due-process rights for failing to restrain the officers. ... Rioting broke out April 29 when a jury of 10 whites, 1 Asian and 1...
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An Account of the Los Angeles Police Officers' Trials(The Rodney ...  A detailed account of the state and federal trials involving the beating ... Within hours of the jury's verdict, Los Angeles erupted in riots. ... Why did the twelve members of the jury fail to convict any of the officers? ... King's bizarre behavior and his "spaced-out" look led Koon to suspect that .... The guy threw me off his back.
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THE POLICE VERDICT; Los Angeles Policemen Acquitted in Taped ...  Apr 30, 1992 ... IMI VALLEY, Calif., April 29 -- Four Los Angeles police officers were ... After hearing seven weeks of detailed testimony and studying the 81-second amateur videotape of the beating, the jury concluded that the policemen, all of whom ... and fires broke out in inner-city Los Angeles within hours of the verdicts.
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1992 Los Angeles riots - Wikipedia  The 1992 Los Angeles riots, also known as the Rodney King riots, the South Central riots, the ... The riot started in South Central Los Angeles and then spread out into other ... The riots started on April 29 after a trial jury acquitted four police officers of the .... LAPD chief Gates upon watching the tape of the beating later said:.
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Rodney King - Wikipedia  Rodney Glen King III (April 2, 1965  June 17, 2012) was an African American taxi driver who became internationally known after being beaten by Los Angeles Police Department officers following a high-speed car chase on March 3, 1991. A witness, George Holliday, videotaped much of the beating from his balcony ... The jury acquitted the fourth of assault with a deadly weapon but failed to...
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Palestinian Revolt's Violence Declines - NYTimes.com  May 4, 1990 ... LEAD: It is 1 P.M. and Manger Square is swarming with tourists in search of souvenirs. ... BETHLEHEM, Israeli-Occupied West Bank, May 3 It is 1 P.M. and Manger ... to the cause, the Palestinian uprising has undergone one dramatic, ... gunfire in April, tying a record low number since the uprising began.
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war crimes facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  It was adopted in 1946 by the General Assembly of the United Nations in a ... He was not charged with a "war crime" as such or tried by a special international tribunal. ..... orders, but the court rejected the claim, and he was hanged for his crimes. ... After the major trials in Nuremberg, American military tribunals held 809 trials...
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Los Angeles Confronts a Bitter Racial Legacy in a Black Panther Case  Jul 20, 1997 ... Elmer Pratt, former Black Panther, is released from prison after ... all because he dared to stand up for his people as the leader of the ... who said the prosecution had suppressed evidence that might have kept him from being convicted. .... had been in the files since six months before Mr. Pratt's trial in 1972.
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Nixon, Campaigning in California, Denounces 'Condoners' of Violence  Oct 31, 1970 ... By Bruce E. Johnson, October 31, 1970 ... In Chicago, Vice President Agnew declared that such demonstrators were "garbage" ... crime," Nixon struck hard at his ideological opponents in Congress who, he said, were ... "It is time for the great Silent Majority of Americans to stand up and be counted," he said.
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New York City draft riots - Wikipedia  The New York City draft riots (July 1316, 1863), known at the time as Draft Week, were violent disturbances in New York City that were the culmination of working-class discontent with new laws passed ... The military did not reach the city until after the first day of rioting, by which time the mobs, primarily ethnic Irish, had...
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Lance Ito - Wikipedia  ... for California trial-court judges forbid commenting upon ... Los Angeles County announced on April 17, 2012 that...
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Watts riots - Wikipedia  The Watts riots, sometimes referred to as the Watts Rebellion, took place in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles .... These racial injustices are cited as reasons why Watts' African-American .... Burn", an episode of the TV series Dark Skies, takes place in Los Angeles during the riots. ... See also[edit] .... December 25, 1986.
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Ron Howell: The new fight for Crown Heights - NY Daily News  Aug 22, 2016 ... A quarter-century after Crown Heights riots, the Brooklyn neighborhood ... 19, 1991, by a Hasidic Jewish driver in a motorcade transporting a rabbi. ... He said the scheduled activities, many of them for children, were ... Crown Heights today is not defined by racial tensions between blacks and Hasidic Jews.
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Rodney King - Wikipedia  Rodney Glen King III (April 2, 1965  June 17, 2012) was an African American taxi driver who became internationally known after being beaten by Los Angeles Police Department officers following a high-speed car chase on March 3, 1991. A witness, George Holliday, videotaped much of the beating from his balcony ... The trial of the four in a federal district court ended on April 16, 1993, with...
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Attica Prison riot - Wikipedia  43 deaths in total. The Attica Prison riot occurred at the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, New York, United States in 1971. ... On September 9, 1971, two weeks after the killing of George Jackson at San Quentin ... When the uprising was over, at least 43 people were dead, including ten correctional officers and civilian...
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THE EARTHQUAKE - The Overview - SEVERE EARTHQUAKE HITS ...  Jan 18, 1994 ... LOS ANGELES, Jan. 17 A violent earthquake jolted millions of people out of bed before dawn ... collapsed, crippling major highways for weeks and possibly months. ... Half a dozen people were arrested in downtown Los Angeles today .... For all its damage, the quake was not the long-predicted Big One...
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Top cop after violent holiday weekend: 'It's not a police issue, it's a ...  Sep 6, 2016 ... Thirteen people were shot to death in Chicago over the Labor Day ... After a violent holiday weekend, Chicago police Superintendant ... "Impoverished neighborhoods, people without hope do these kinds of things," he said.
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March 3, 1991: Rodney King beating caught on video - CBS News  Mar 3, 2016 ... After a high-speed chase, Rodney King was beaten by LAPD officers who were later acquitted of all charges -- sparking intense race riots in...
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Analysis - Evaluating The Prosecution's Case | The Oj Verdict - PBS  Oct 4, 2005 ... They took six months to present the evidence against O.J. Simpson. ... Then they get on the witness stand when [defense attorney] Robert Shapiro moved ... So the prosecutors in L.A. figured, well, they know these cops are out there trying ... And they [the jury] had to give that up by saying that he's a criminal.
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Manson Family Murders Fast Facts - CNN.com  Jun 24, 2016 ... Manson was denied parole for the 12th time on April 12, 2012. ... It has been more than four decades since the murder of Sharon Tate and four ..... (CNN) Here is look at Charles Manson and the 1969 Manson Family cult killings. ..... The imprisoned cult leader says, however, that Star's story is "garbage.
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Stonewall Riots 40th Anniversary: A Look Back at the Uprising that ...  Jun 26, 2009 ... Part 2: Native Americans Most Likely to Be Killed by Police Than Other Groups, Investigation Reveals .... DAVE ISAY: On Friday evening, June 27th, 1969, at about 11:45, .... author of Stonewall: The Riots that Sparked the Gay Revolution. ... time there's been a raid on a bar in Greenwich Village, and the gay...