Posted on 04/27/2017 4:39:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It’s been 25 years since the Los Angeles rebellion, but Rep. Maxine Waters remembers it like it was just yesterday.
The California Democrat was traveling on business when Rodney King was brutally beaten by LAPD officers on March 3, 1991. She told HuffPost that she remembers watching the footage from her hotel bed.
“I sat straight up and all I could say, ‘Oh, my god! Oh, my god! Look at this,’” Waters said. She and black Americans across the country shared the same outrage.
King, who was pulled over after a high-speed chase with the LAPD, was released from jail without being charged. But black people’s anger increased as they witnessed the 17 cops who did nothing but watch as their colleagues beat King walk free. The residents of Los Angeles reached their boiling point on April 29, 1992, however, when a mostly white jury acquitted the four white cops who assaulted King. That is when the city rebelled....
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Wonder ho Waters felt about Reginald Denny or if she even remembers who he is?
Which is interesting... given that Nazis were a mass movement based on race and communists were a mass movement based on class...the Democratic Party is fixated on both class and race. Communifascists.
I think they use untouchable ensconced Democrats like Waters and Cummings to do their dirty work so that those in riskier seats undertake no personal risk or embarassment.
I remember watching it on TV and gritting my teeth in disgust that the helicopters didn’t have police snipers taking out some of the worst offenders.
That would mess up her James Brown Wig. It might also get entangled and expose that she is really bald!
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