In March of 1991, a plumber named George Holliday taped four LAPD officers kicking, beating, and stomping on Rodney King, a man they had just pulled over for speeding. The tape, later referred to as ‘The George Holliday Tape’, showed three of the four officers beating King fifty-two times with metal batons, on his body and head, while also kicking him several times (Linder). One officer even stomped on his shoulder, causing his head to slam against the ground. While the officers involved did not
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brutally beaten by two Los Angeles police officers, and the entire altercation had been caught on film. Brent Maher, a senior in high school at the time, can recall the impact it had, not only in Los Angeles, but across the nation. Rodney King was an unemployed construction worker who was out on parole after serving time in prison for armed robbery. On March 3, 1991, he was caught speeding down the highway with two other passengers. When his car was finally
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Introduction The Watts Riots were caused by a roadside argument when a black man, Marquette Frye, was arrested for speeding. Frye had been drinking, and was driving with his brother, Ronald, in the car, when the two were pulled over two blocks from their home. While Marquette was being arrested, Ronald retrieved their mother from her house. When Mrs. Frye saw her son being forcibly arrested, she fought with the arresting officers, tearing one officer’s shirt. An officer then struck Marquette’s head
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Caring for Populations Milestone 2: Assessment and Diagnosis Walnut, California, the city that I’ve known most of my 29 years. This suburban, upper middle class city lies about 27 miles out from Downtown Los Angeles and is part of the Los Angeles County. I moved here when I was barely 2 years old and have resided in this city since. Little did my parents know that the city they choose to raise their family at would be a safe, quaint and well-kept community. Though majority of its residents are
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SHOULD NOT APPEAR ON ANY OTHER PAGE. BACK GROUND ABOUT MY JOB I work for Los Angeles Probation Department, the problem we’re having at his time is not getting the support of the other agencies to improved statistic gathering processing. The information systems advisory body needs to collaborate with each other to develop this system. This system needs to have access to management analysis tool to evaluate the efficacy of Los Angeles County criminal justice services. It will compile and aggregate
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Whitney Patterson 9/25/203 Freshman English Analyzing an Argument I believe the argument on the podcast is being made by the American people towards Hollywood and the view it makes immigrants. Hollywood wants immigrants to that think that America is the land of opportunity where all dreams come true. The audience of this podcast is both people over seas and the American public. I think that the audience has changed by growing substantially larger. Upon the release of the podcast online
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员)、影城中心与娱乐中心。在影城中心你可以在电影拍摄现场亲身 体验电影的拍摄过程。在娱乐中心,除了最受欢迎的鬼屋、辛普森 4D影院、木乃伊4D影院是必玩项目之外,去年新开的3D金刚之 旅,和今年新开的4D变形金刚影院为影城最新大热。 出影城右拐就是全城闻名的步行购物街(city walk),各色巨型绚丽 的广告牌、商店、餐厅、电影院、酒吧、咖啡馆等等具有好莱坞特 色的休闲娱乐场所。 地址:100 Universal City Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 91608 开放时间:大致为周一到周五:10:00-18:00,周六、周日: 8:00-18:00,每月开放时间会有微调,建议行前在官网再次确认当 日开放时间。 门票:80美元左右随月份变化。网上有各种打折票 www.universalstudioshollywood.com 4：30－5：30开车前往santa monica 晚上去圣塔莫妮卡海滩看看夜景,顺便吃个饭 圣塔莫妮卡海滩
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is the name of an Indian village in which California State University, Long Beach was built on. This village is believed to have been populated by the Tongva, also known as Gabrielino, people. They were indigenous people that called the surrounding Los Angeles region as home. Puvungna still remains sacred to the Gabrielino people as they believe it was the birthplace of Chingishnish. Chungishnish is believe to be the major deity or culture hero in Tongva mythology. As stated above, the Tongva people
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has gotten up even though the officer tells him to lie down. Although it also shown that he was not resisting, failing to comply to an officer is considered a threat. The officer knows this his third felony so he will be going for life in prison; in Los Angeles, the officer needs to more than ever to be identified as authority. Although prisoner for life seems like enough punishment, he still be around people and officer to commit potential crimes, meaning that discipline is still needed. Also, even
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I decided to explore the timeline tab. The first report was after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. It started out with little crimes such as window breaking to bigger crimes such as shootings and fires. I didn’t know that they banned anything flammable and weapons in the city. There were over one thousand police and the governor set a curfew. Soldiers used tear gas to break up crowds. They had a helicopter to watch the city during curfew. Baltimore loss more than eight million dollars and
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