Rodney King [True Crime Special]

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🗓️ 23 January 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Rodney Glen King (April 2, 1965 – June 17, 2012) was a construction worker turned writer and activist after surviving an act of police brutality by the Los Angeles Police Department. On March 3, 1991, King was violently beaten by LAPD officers during his arrest for fleeing and evading on California State Route 210. A civilian, George Holliday, filmed the incident from his nearby balcony and sent the footage to local news station KTLA. The footage clearly showed King being beaten repeatedly, and the incident was covered by news media around the world.

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0:00.0	But he looks like he's fighting a three-headed monster though.
0:06.2	Yeah, right.
0:07.2	But how is a gigantic lizard fighting an even bigger three-headed monster in the city
0:11.7	is supposed to save that city?
0:13.6	You literally ruined everything.
0:15.1	Hey, guys, guys, guys, guys.
0:16.9	Do not go in there.
0:18.6	Why shouldn't we go into the studio?
0:21.2	Okay.
0:22.2	I shouldn't have to explain this, but this week's essay is about Rodney King.
0:28.0	In a few minutes ago, I saw Eli walk in there with four bats, a can of black shoe polish,
0:32.8	and a few police uniforms with the assas cut out of the pants.
0:35.9	Gross.
0:36.9	And that's not all.
0:38.2	Look at this script.
0:40.5	Holy shit.
0:41.5	No, no, no, no, guy.
0:43.5	You even write that?
0:45.5	I've never seen, is that?
0:48.4	Wait, is that every single black racial slur as a Disney song?
0:53.6	Yeah, I feel like he made some, he had to have made some of these up.
0:57.3	And look at page four.
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