In Los Angeles in 1992, after a brief car chase, police pulled unarmed Rodney King from his car and brutally beat him. The incident was captured on video by a photographer and released to the news media, unleashing an unparalleled series of marches, protests, and rioting. Award-winning documentary LA 92 tells the story of King’s arrest, beating, and trial, and the subsequent events that transformed Los Angeles.
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The protests in Los Angeles will trigger memories for many of the LA Riots of 1992 (also known as the South Central riots, Rodney King riots, and the 1992 Los Angeles uprising.)
If you are talking about the events of 1992 in your classroom to provide historical context for current events, we have resources that can help. 1/n
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I just watched LA 92, about the uprising after the acquittal of the cops who beat Rodney King. It was excellent and I recommend it. It also got me thinking about anti-abolition rhetoric, which so often relies on the unexamined claim that without the justice system, cops, judges, jails, society would descend into chaos.
Both '92 and the 1965 Watts rebellion were huge compared to other twentieth century American uprisings, but objectively they were small scale compared to the mad max scenarios predicted by anti-abolitionists. In both cases LAPD was overwhelmed, unable to restore order without a full scale military occupation. Police alone are incapable of preventing civil disorder. There just aren't enough of them.
Los Angeles isn't occupied by the military to the extent that history shows is required to restore and maintain law and order and yet it's generallly quite peaceful here. People can and do just get along. This day to day calm cooperation is the default. It's certainly not due to the cops because history shows they can't enforce it.
Not only that but both rebellions were kicked off by police brutality sanctioned and approved by the justice system.* In the case of '92 this was exacerbated by a judge's sentencing Latasha Harlins's killer to probation rather than the recommended ten years incarceration. It's easy to make a case that without cops and courts neither uprising would have happened.
So the fact that Americans are largely peaceful isn't due to cops and courts while two of the twentieth century's biggest instances of civil disorder were caused by cops and courts and cops and courts were unable to quell them. Tell me again why we need cops and courts?
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* A jury acquitted the cops who beat King, but it was a judge who changed the venue to Simi Valley, practically guaranteeing this outcome.
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