‘You’re going to see acts that defy humanity,’ police chief says, as officials urge calm when Tyre Nichols arrest videos are released publicly tonight (cnn.com)
This video must be horrific.
I remember the LA Riots. It was the first big video to be released of police brutality. It caught all the big news about it and LA was already a powder keg with racial tensions among the different groups. The previous year was the part that laid out the fuse was when Latasha Harlins was killed by a Korean shop owner, but the shop owner only got probation. Then you finally get this video that spreads all over the news of the police just openly beating a Black man who is begging to be peaceful and that was the match and led to 6 days of massive riots, over 60 deaths, and practically a war between African Americans and Koreans in LA.
Now days, it would be “another Tuesday” sort of. It wasn’t just Rodney King’s beating that the riots were about, it was decades of economic downturn in that area and growing distrust of the races with each other.
Just like with George Floyd protests, it wasn’t just for him, it was the years prior with all the others, and we have recent events that have been bubbling about too so again, it could just spread like wildfire like the last few times.
‘You’re going to see acts that defy humanity,’ police chief says, as officials urge calm when Tyre Nichols arrest videos are released publicly tonight (cnn.com)
This video must be horrific.
I remember the LA Riots. It was the first big video to be released of police brutality. It caught all the big news about it and LA was already a powder keg with racial tensions among the different groups. The previous year was the part that laid out the fuse was when Latasha Harlins was killed by a Korean shop owner, but the shop owner only got probation. Then you finally get this video that spreads all over the news of the police just openly beating a Black man who is begging to be peaceful and that was the match and led to 6 days of massive riots, over 60 deaths, and practically a war between African Americans and Koreans in LA.
Now days, it would be “another Tuesday” sort of. It wasn’t just Rodney King’s beating that the riots were about, it was decades of economic downturn in that area and growing distrust of the races with each other.
Just like with George Floyd protests, it wasn’t just for him, it was the years prior with all the others, and we have recent events that have been bubbling about too so again, it could just spread like wildfire like the last few times.