Watts Burns Again
Parent Issue
Month
May
Year
1992
Copyright
Creative Commons (Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share-alike)
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Agenda Publications
OCR Text
As AGENDA goes to press, Los Angeles is ablaze. Angry crowds gathered shortly after the April 29 acquittal of four cops charged in the notorious videotaped attack on Black motorist Rodney King. The verdict, paired with chronic violence against the Black community, sparked acute rioting. In the hours that followed, the L.A. police killed more Blacks.
We're enraged. Who would have thought anyone could get away with beating another person as brutally as those cops beat Rodney King? Yet in a time when mainstream politicians win votes by promising to spend less in Black majority cities and to put more Black men in prison, we are not that surprised.