On 30-Year Anniversary Of The Rodney King Beating, LA Recalls One Of The Most Defining Moments Of Its History

CBS NEWS LOS ANGELES ^ | March 3, 2021 | Staff

[L.A.Justice]

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – It was three decades ago Wednesday that one of the most defining moments in Los Angeles history took place, changing the face of the city forever.

On March 3, 1991, a plumber named George Holliday recorded four white LAPD officers using batons, Tasers, feet and fists to beat a Black man later identified as Rodney King.

Holliday had been asleep in his Lake View Terrace apartment when he was awakened by a commotion that prompted him to grab his Sony Handycam and record the attack outside his apartment building.

[L.A.Justice]

30 years already?

Many people associated with this event have died...

LAPD Chief Daryl Gates, LA Mayor Tom Bradley, Attorney Warren Christopher...All passed away...Rodney King also died many years ago...I did see King's daughter on TV...

By the way, Johnnie Cochran did represent Reginald Denny...The truck driver...Cochran passed away several years ago...

Rodney King was a guy with a lot of issues...He had to try very hard to stay out of trouble...

[HighSierra5]

Can’t we all just get along?

[Paladin2]

Koreans on the roof.

Great Job guys.

[Altura Ct.]

Reginald Denny the guy who was almost beat to death for being white.

[wardaddy]

Another faux black thing.
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[Gene Eric]

Yup.

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Re: 1992 Los Angeles riots

Never Forget Maxine Waters Embraced the Thug Who Slammed Concrete on Reginald Denny’s Head

by M. Dowling, May 13, 2017

“Maxine Waters embraced Damien Williams, the infamous thug who hurled a chunk of concrete at truck driver Reginald Denny and performed a victory dance over this innocent man’s battered body. Maxine Waters even visited Damien Williams’ mother to offer her support.

Williams was sent to prison on a single felony charge of mayhem, but when his accomplices got off, Waters joined in the celebration.

Damien Williams was released a few years later and went on to [commit] murder...

Also, no surprise, he was a member of the Crips.”

https://www.independentsentinel.com/never-forget-maxine-waters-embraced-thug-hurled-concrete-reginald-denny/

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“Reginald Oliver Denny (born 1953) is a White former construction truck driver who was pulled from his truck and severely beaten during the 1992 Los Angeles riots by a group of Black men who came to be known as the “L.A. Four”. The attack was captured on video by a news helicopter, and broadcast live on U.S. national television.

Four other Black L.A. residents who had been witnessing the attack on live television came to Denny’s aid, placing him back in his truck, in which one of the rescuers drove him to the hospital.

Denny suffered a fractured skull and impairment of his speech and ability to walk, for which he underwent years of rehabilitative therapy.

After unsuccessfully suing the City of Los Angeles, Denny moved to Arizona, where he worked as an independent boat mechanic and has mostly avoided media contact.”

-—Wikipedia
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“Antoine Miller climbed up and opened the truck door, giving an unidentified man the chance to pull Denny out and throw him on the ground.

Henry Watson stood on Denny’s neck to hold him down as a group of Black men surrounded him and Anthony Brown kicked him in the abdomen.[8][3]

As Watson walked away, two other unidentified [Black] men joined in the attack: one hurled a five-pound oxygenator stolen from Larry Tarvin’s truck at Denny’s head,[9] and the other kicked him and hit him with a claw hammer.[8]

News footage showed Damian Williams throwing a cinder block at Denny’s head, then doing a football-style victory dance in the road and flashing gang signs at the Los Angeles News Service helicopter of Robert Tur and Marika Gerrard.[3][10]

After the beating ended, some men threw beer bottles at the unconscious body and a man searched Denny’s back pockets, taking his wallet.[8][3]

Tur and Gerrard reported that there was no police presence in the area.[4]"

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Maxine Waters on the Los Angeles riots of 1992 (Rodney King riots):

"In defense of the people that looted stores and damaged property, [Maxine] Waters said 'If you call it a riot it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for no reason. I maintain it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable. So I call it a rebellion.'[5]

She also said it was 'a spontaneous reaction to a lot of injustice' and 'The anger in my district is righteous. I'm just as angry as they are'. "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxine_Waters#Los_Angeles_riots_of_1992

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The 1992 LA/Rodney King riots and the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP)...

“Throughout its history, one of RCP’s [Revolutionary Communist Party] principal objectives has been to foment civil unrest in the United States.

The most notable example of such efforts occurred on April 29, 1992, when RCP members looted and trashed the downtown and government districts of Los Angeles, triggering the infamous Rodney King riots.

During the days immediately preceding the violence, RCP — which maintained close ties to the L.A. gangs known as the Crips and the Bloods — had circulated throughout South Central Los Angeles a leaflet featuring a statement by RCP National Spokesman Carl Dix, titled ‘It’s Right To Rebel’ — a quote popularized by Mao Zedong.

Encouraged by Dix, RCP activists helped lead the riots that would leave 58 people dead, more than 2,300 people injured, some 5,300 buildings burned, and $1 billion in property damaged or destroyed.

On the ten-year anniversary of the rioting, RCP member Joseph Veale fondly recalled the violence as ‘the most beautiful, the most heroic civil action in the history of the United States.’”

DiscoverTheNetworks org

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Revolutionary Communist Party USA leader [Bob Avakian] endorses Biden, warns followers against ‘protest vote’ ...says voting for Biden is essential

by Andrew O’Reilly | Fox News | August 2, 2020

The head of the Revolutionary Communist Party USA is urging members to head to the polls in November to cast their votes for presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden – arguing that while Biden still represents a “murderous system of capitalism-imperialism” he is a better choice than President Trump. ...”

[WLusvardi]

Riots do not occur spontaneously. They are planned. Planned from the top, not from the grass roots. What was the purpose of the riot? To scare white and asian homeowners out of the first concentric rings of neighborhoods around the center of Los Angeles, so that migrants could replace them and a cheap labor force could be created for the wholesale markets in the city center (e.g., Produce Market, Flower Market, Furniture Market, Fashion Market, Jewelry Market, Olvera Street, etc). Rodney King was a bigger than life character who didn’t even need to be given a script to play his part in the drama.

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Maxine Waters, BTW, like quite a few prominent Democrats, has had close ties to the Revolutionary Communist Party for many years, most often working through their various phony front groups, such as "World Can't Wait" and so-called "Refuse Fascism".

"During the days immediately preceding the violence, RCP — which maintained close ties to the L.A. gangs known as the Crips and the Bloods — had circulated throughout South Central Los Angeles a leaflet featuring a statement by RCP National Spokesman Carl Dix, titled ‘It’s Right To Rebel’ — a quote popularized by Mao Zedong."

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[wardaddy]

Two of my closest pals are Angelenos

Film industry conservatives

Los Feliz residents

I go out annually

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As many times as Sunsara Taylor has been on Fox News I don't think she has ever once been confronted on who she really is, or what she really represents. And as you can from the pics I posted, she's appeared as a guest on the network going back to the GW Bush days, when the Revolutionary Communist Party front group at the time was "World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime". Again, it's currently, but certainly soon to change again, "Refuse Fascism--Drive Out the Trump-Pence Regime".

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"Refuse Fascism" spokesperson Sunsara Taylor with long-time Revolutionary Communist Party leader Carl Dix. They are the lead spokespeople for both RF AND the RCP. Maybe someone should them this at Fox News (after nearly 20 years of her appearing on their network!)

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Riots do not occur spontaneously. They are planned. Planned from the top, not from the grass roots. What was the purpose of the riot? To scare white and asian homeowners out of the first concentric rings of neighborhoods around the center of Los Angeles, so that migrants could replace them and a cheap labor force could be created for the wholesale markets in the city center (e.g., Produce Market, Flower Market, Furniture Market, Fashion Market, Jewelry Market, Olvera Street, etc).

"so that migrants could replace them and a cheap labor force could be created for the wholesale markets in the city center (e.g., Produce Market, Flower Market, Furniture Market, Fashion Market, Jewelry Market..."????

Sorry, but if you have no friggin clue what you're talking about it would be best for you not to add anything. Seriously. The riots then as now are all about communist revolution. Nothing more, nothing less.

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“so that migrants could replace them and a cheap labor force could be created for the wholesale markets in the city center (e.g., Produce Market, Flower Market, Furniture Market, Fashion Market, Jewelry Market...”????

Well, actually, that may be part of a first few steps agenda. However, the ultimate goal for those leading the movement, for the entire country, then and now, is to replace our Capitalist system with a Communist one.

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Re: Communist Revolution: Nothing more, nothing less...

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The RCP calls for the armed overthrow of the U.S. government...

From the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party (revcom.us)....

"Create Public Opinion, Seize Power: We are preparing minds and organizing forces for the time when there is a major crack in the system, whenever it comes and wherever it comes from: an opening that makes it possible to bring the future Revolutionary Army of the Proletariat (R.A.P.) into the field and wage a revolutionary armed struggle that actually has a chance of winning.

And we have said that building our party itself is the most important part of organizing forces for revolution. This is true now, and it is true looking forward to the creation of that future R.A.P. and the waging of that armed struggle.":

http://revcom.us/a/v20/1000-1009/1000/barw.htm
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"Encouraged by Dix, RCP activists helped lead the riots that would leave 58 people dead, more than 2,300 people injured, some 5,300 buildings burned, and $1 billion in property damaged or destroyed. On the ten-year anniversary of the rioting, RCP member Joseph Veale fondly recalled the violence as 'the most beautiful, the most heroic civil action in the history of the United States.'"

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6197

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"I maintain it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable. So I call it a rebellion."--Maxine Waters
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"The RCP [Revolutionary Communist Party] upheld the 1992 sometimes-violent unrest in Los Angeles and nationally as a 'rebellion' in the aftermath of the Rodney King verdicts.

Then-LAPD chief Daryl Gates alleged that the RCP was involved in the 'riots'.

Los Angeles has long been one of the RCP's larger and more active branches.

William 'Mobile' Shaw was a local leader who recently passed and received public commendation from the party."

(piece has since been removed from Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Communist_Party%2C_USA

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Rodney King was a guy with a lot of issues...He had to try very hard to stay out of trouble... ***

I’ve read that because tasers did not work on him he was believed to be on “Angel Dust” so he had to be beat down as he would not submit to the orders of the police (including a black cop).

King got a BIG settlement of several million dollars from the city for this, but just a couple of years later he was flat broke.