In the year of 1991 a man by the name of Rodney king was tortured by the police in L.A. He was a taxi driver and lived a normal life until that night he was struck more then 50 times with metal botans by 4 white officers. He desereved to get punished but not in the way he was that night. Those officers violated his civil rights to the highest degree, they put him in the hospital with serious injuries. Even though the video was entered into evidence during the trial an all white jury ruled that there wasn' t enough evidence to convict the 4 officers. After the trail the residents of L.A. formed a riot and 54 people lost there lives. But this trail just proves that racism still exist with our government and country.
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