The LA riots of 1992.

LAPD in California Highway Patrol officers chased, arrested, and beat Rodney King,

a 25-year-old black man in 1991, and the fateful encounter would lead to a verdict of not guilty

for the four officers that brought the city of LA to its knees. Longstanding racial tensions

bubbled over the surface and inflamed by a video of the altercation, people took to the streets,

burning, looting, and brutalizing their fellow citizens. The rioters didn't agree with

the innocent verdicts, and they took out their rage sadly, mostly on their own innocent neighbors.

The LA riots happened just under 30 years ago, and many people alive today remember seeing

images of LA, particularly South Central LA, up in flames, storefront windows shattered,

people taken to the streets with homemade weapons and stopping cars, injuring hundreds of

citizens, and causing millions and millions of dollars in damage. And for those people that

remember all of this 2020 might feel like deja vu. Why are racial riots still happening now?

Is it because there's a real epidemic of police brutality in America? Or is there mostly just

the perception of one? Can perception alone lead to rioting? What's going on with the police today?

Are black civilians being unfairly targeted? If there is not an epidemic of police brutality of racist

brutality, then why are there riots? What other problems are leading communities to break out into

communal anger and rage and often violence? Doing my damnedest today to answer some really

complicated, complex and culturally volatile and polarizing questions. In a please,

Nimrod, let me get this shit right. Why can't we all just get along? A riot is the language of

the unheard addition of Time Suck.

This is Michael McDonald and you're listening to Time Suck. You're listening to Time Suck.

Happy Monday in Hale Nimrod, Midsax. I see what you're doing and I like it,

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