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	Rodney Riots - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The riots were inspired when the Jamaican government of Hugh Shearer banned Guyanese university lecturer Dr. Walter Rodney from returning to his teaching position at the University of the West Indies.
		Rodney, a historian of Africa had been active in the Black power movement, and had been sharply critical of the middle class in many Caribbean countries.
		Rodney was an avowed socialist who worked with the poor of Jamaica in an attempt to raise their political and cultural consciousness.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Rodney_Riots (316 words)

	Rodney Riots - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Rodney Riots were a series of riots and civil disturbances centred mostly in Jamaica, but spreading also to other Caribbean countries such as Trinidad and Tobago in October 1968.
		The riots were inspired when the Jamaican government of Hugh Shearer banned Walter Rodney from returning to his teaching position at the University of the West Indies.
		When Rodney took a trip to attend a fl writers' conference in Montreal, Canada in October 1968 the government took the opportunity to ban him from returning, citing among other things trips to Cuba and the USSR as justification.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Rodney_Riots (263 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Walter Rodney
		Born to a working class family, Rodney was a bright student, attending Queen's College in Guyana and then attending university on a scholarship at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, graduating in 1963.
		Rodney was sharply critical of the middle class for its role in the post independence Caribbean.
		Rodney became a prominent Pan-Africanist, and was important in the Black Power movement in the Caribbean.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Walter_Rodney (571 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
		These riots, on October 16, 1968 are now known as the Rodney Riots, and they triggered an increase in political awareness across the Caribbean especially among the Afrocentric Rastafarian sector of Jamaica, documented in his book "The groundings with my brothers."
		Rodney became a prominent Pan-Africanist, and was important in the Black Power movement in the Caribbean and North America.
		Rodney was killed in a bomb explosion while running for office in Guyanese elections.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Walter_Rodney (521 words)

	Los Angeles Riots-Series of Reports
		Officers were seen at several locations to be wearing the standard "riot gear" that is used during periods of unrest and to protect officers was assaults.
		City residents are said to be "holding their breath" and praying that the seemingly isolated "lawlessness" doesn't spread to engulf the entire city in vengence for the actions of a jury that made a decision.
		He was responding to the fact that at least three firefighters have been reportedly shot while in the performance of their duties, and that often police officers were not available to accompany and protect fire units while they performed their already dangerous duties.
	www.emergency.com /la-riots.htm (3242 words)

	Rodney King Summary
		An international symbol of racial violence and ongoing social injustice, the brutal police beating of Rodney King on March 3, 1991, and the subsequent acquittal of all officers involved, were the trigger events that led to the Los Angeles uprisings in April 1992.
		Rodney King was charged with felony evading the night of the incident, but this charge was dropped.
		Rodney King and the April Riots are the focus of the song "April 29, 1992" by Sublime.
	www.bookrags.com /Rodney_King (4311 words)

	Term Paper on Rodney King and the Los Angeles Riots
		Lee U.S History 14 May 2004 Rodney King and the Los Angeles Riots andlt;Tab/andgt;The worst riot in United States History was the Los Angles riot that was sparked by the acquittal of four Los Angeles Police Department officers in the Rodney King case in the afternoon of April 29, 1992.
		The Rodney King beating and the not guilty verdict was the last straw for many citizens that destroyed, burned, looted, and killed in the streets of Los Angeles for many days in a row.
		As the riot appeared to be dying down, thanks to federal troops, the citizens of Los Angeles now realized that the mess they had caused was much worse than the mess that existed before the riots.
	www.swiftpapers.com /essay/Rodney_King_and_the_Los_Angele-167508.html (205 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: The Legacy of the Watts Riots by Abraham H. Miller
		Underlying that agenda was their assertion that the riots were a direct consequence of fl oppression and their warning that the riots were harbingers of a greater fire next time.
		The Kerner Commission Report, the foundation for the pervasive national mythology of the riots, was dramatically influenced by Shellow’s “Harvest.” The Kerner report preserved Shellow’s view that fls were a colonized race living under oppression, and that it was the larger society, not the rioters, that had to answer for the riots.
		Riots often occur because of the immediate gratification of the violence and the carnival atmosphere of the moment.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19093 (2111 words)

	Rodney King
		I guess everybody agrees that they are very significant in dramatizing the true dimension of racial discrimination and injustice still present in the U.S. This Rodney King case looks fascinating to me, revealing a disease that is kept underground and disguised, a disease coming to the surface and erupting in nasty ways.
		I found the transcript of the radio conversations of the police with headquarters at the time of the Rodney King beating, which is without a doubt "the seed", the radical of all that happened later.
		The L.A. riots began late in the afternoon and early in the evening of April 29, 1992.
	www.expreso.co.cr /centaurs/posts/mundane/riots.html (389 words)

	Court TV Online - Rodney King
		Lou Cannon: The "McCone Revisited" report was for the 20-year anniversary of the Watts riots in 1985 [specifically, the report by former CIA director John McCone, who examined Watts' root causes] and "L.A. 2000" was a city report that had all the movers and shakers of the city.
		You have this terrible riot in which 54 people are killed and then during the middle of the riot you have the President of the United States, George Bush, saying, "This isn't over," setting in motion a federal trial on civil rights charges against the same four officers.
		And by the way, I'm as critical of the use of that videotape as I am of the use of the Rodney King videotape because while it showed all the fl assailants of these whites, Asians and Latinos, television wasn't able to show the rescues, which were mostly made by fl civilians.
	www.courttv.com /archive/casefiles/rodneyking (3803 words)

	Introduction
		Two key examples were the riots that followed the Rodney King incident in Los Angeles, California in 1992 and the riots that followed the McDuffie slaying in Miami, Florida in 1979.
		During the Rodney King incident, there was also a variety of helicopter coverage, not by only one station as in Watts, but this time by many.
		The effect the media has had on rioting must be assessed, examining what actions the media is engaging in or failing to engage in that causes riots to persist.
	www.nd.edu /~dmyers/team/taprop.html (1955 words)

	Rodney King and the L
		Ten years ago today, several days of rioting broke out in Los Angeles after four White police officers were acquitted by a White jury on charges of assault and use of excessive force against Rodney King.
		In the 11 months before the trial began, defense attorneys moved the trial to the suburb of Simi Valley, Calif., despite concerns that the jury would reflect a different demographic than that of the city of Los Angeles.
		There were also riots in several other cities; 300 people were arrested in Atlanta.
	www.psychology.iastate.edu /faculty/madon/socialpsychology280/extrareadings/Rodneyking.htm (845 words)

	Los Angeles riots - AskTheBrain.com
		During the Los Angeles riots in the spring of 1992, while one war was breaking out in the streets of America's largest city, another war was ending.
		Remember that when Los Angeles had hot weather, we had the Watts riots, and the Negroes came out to violate the law, to shoot at the firemen, to set fire to their buildings, to act as though they were insane.
		Riots break out in Los Angeles, sparked by the acquittal of four white police officers caught on videotape beating Rodney King, a fl motorist.
	www.askthebrain.com /angele_lo_riot-.html (418 words)

	Remembering Walter Rodney - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
		With Rodney at the helm, the WPA was to shake the traditional ethnic-based turfs of both Burnham's PNC and Cheddi Jagan's People's Progressive Party in the face of ominous warnings about the physical survival of the flamboyant, charismatic people's historian.
		Close colleagues of Rodney, among them two 'comrades' who had, at different periods, appeared as bodyguards, were shot to death in separate mysterious circumstances, with the police claiming self-defence against "armed" men.
		As Lewis noted, Walter Rodney "belonged to the generation of post-colonial historians of Africa and the Caribbean who embarked on the project of writing the history of the regions affected by the Atlantic slave trade from the standpoint of those whose voices had been muted in the historical record.
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /columns/html/20050521T160000-0500_80891_OBS_REMEMBERING_WALTER_RODNEY.asp (1231 words)

	France goes through a variation of the Rodney King riots \| TPMCafe
		These riots may be of a piece with the murders of Fortune and Van Gogh in the Netherlands.
		According to the BBC the riots were sparked by the death of two Muslim young men as they were hiding from French police.
		Riot police forces have used tear gas and rubber bullets to repel the attacks.
	www.tpmcafe.com /story/2005/11/2/182146/400 (2733 words)

	African American Registry: Rodney King riots erupt in Los Angeles
		One of the first major urban insurrections in the United States after the 1960s, this riot shocked many Americans who had come to believe that the days of explosive racial tensions were behind them.
		Writing about the riot in a 1992 essay "Learning to Talk of Race," philosopher Cornel West suggested "what we witnessed in Los Angeles was the consequence of a lethal linkage of economic decline, cultural decay, and political lethargy in American life.
		The 1992 riot represented a rude awakening for many Americans, who had assumed that after two relatively quiet decades, the days of large-scale urban race riots were a thing of the past.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/850/Rodney_King_riots_erupt_in_Los_Angeles (547 words)

	Fragments Photos-King Riots
		By the time Rodney King was handcuffed and in police custody, he had sustained kidney damage and eleven skull fractures.
		When the Rodney King uprising began I was living in the heart of Koreatown.
		During the first day and a half of rioting I cowered in my apartment, watching the action on TV like it was a big-budget disaster movie.
	www.fragmentsweb.org /stuff/photking.html (1082 words)

	Jamie Patel
		The tape of the beating and the riots brought attention to police brutality in urban areas.
		For example, if they were held responsible for their actions when Rodney King was beaten, they may have stopped beating him when he was no longer a threat to them.
		It says that Rodney King was at the hospital and that the police will have to face racism charges.
	www.msu.edu /~pateljam/atl/pproposal.html (2119 words)

	Powells.com Interviews - Walter Mosley
		As riots in Watts are winding down, the police discover the corpse of Nola Payne, a young fl woman known on the street as Little Scarlet.
		But the Watts riots are a metaphor for all of the rage that existed in all of the hearts of almost every African American.
		And in the sixties you have Harlem, you have Detroit which was a monster riot you have Tampa (maybe Tampa was in the seventies, but it happened), there were a few places.
	www.powells.com /authors/mosley.html (3630 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Americas \| Flashback: Rodney King and the LA riots
		In 1991, footage of Rodney King being beaten by four police officers while others looked on caused outrage around the world, and was a major factor in triggering serious rioting in the city a year later.
		Rodney King suffered a fractured skull and internal injuries in the attack.
		Rodney King won a $3.8m damages from the City of Los Angeles.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/2119943.stm (518 words)

	CNN.com - Los Angeles riot still echoes a decade later - April 29, 2002
		The riot that began that afternoon became one of the nation's bloodiest.
		That afternoon, television viewers watched in horror as a white truck driver, Reginald Denny, was pulled from his cab and beaten at the corner of Florence and Normandie avenues, in the mostly fl South Central neighborhood.
		King has had numerous run-ins with the law in the decade since the riots and is currently in a substance abuse rehabilitation program.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/US/04/28/la.riot.anniversary/index.html (1240 words)

	Kellermann's Kollectionn of Rodney King (Koon et al.) Trial Books
		Race and Justice: Rodney King and O.J. Simpson in a House Divided.
		Rodney King and the L.A. Rebellion: Analysis and Commentary by 13 Independent Black Writers.
		The Rodney King Verdict and the Central Los Angeles Aftermath: Statements from the United States Congress.
	www.physics.unlv.edu /~farley/humor/K/king.htm (397 words)

	The New York Times > National > 12 Years After the Riots, Rodney King Gets Along (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Rodney King, whose videotaped beating led to the riots that left 55 dead and $1 billion in property damage in Los Angeles in 1992, is living at once the American dream and the American nightmare.
		Even the most cynical observer had to pity him when he said that he, Rodney King, felt responsible for the riot; that he was the gas can that caused the deaths, the accelerant for the rage that engulfed Los Angeles when the white police officers were acquitted of his beating.
		Since the riots there have been the O. Simpson trial as well as a number of sensational cases of white police officers shooting or torturing unarmed fl men.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/09/19/national/19king.html?ex=1253332800&en=50aebedfe0785c27&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland (1150 words)

	Online NewsHour Forum: Authors' Corner with Lou Cannon -- April 7, 1998
		The riots were not organized (except in a limited way by some gang members once the LAPD abandoned the riot epicenter), and the majority of people in South Central did not participate in them.
		In part, it was because rank-and-file officers--especially those from the 77th Street Division who bore the brunt of the riots--were alienated from the city's police and political leadership as well as the media, and reluctant to talk at all.
		By failing to point out the pro-police composition of the jury-- and the opinions of the jurors were available to reporters on the questionnaires they had filed with the court-- the media contributed to the general perception that convictions in Simi Valley were inevitable because of the videotape.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/authors_corner/jan-june98/cannon_4-7.html (2515 words)

	Books: Street Smart (Tucson Weekly . 02-23-98)
		Lou Cannon's analysis of the L.A. riots is one of the most important books to hit the shelves in years.
		FROM THE UNNERVING videotape to the maddening trial to the subsequent riots, the Rodney King case was projected as a matter of fl and white.
		Rodney King may have been a spark, Cannon demonstrates, but the fuse was already primed.
	weeklywire.com /ww/02-23-98/tw_book1.html (623 words)

	Urban Poor & Rodney King Riots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		I wrote it shortly after the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, and it originally appeared in the June 1992 issue of a zine called Rotten Fruit.
		On Thursday morning, the second day of the Rodney King rebellion, I sat huddled in my tiny Koreatown apartment, safely watching the uprising on my TV like it was some big-budget disaster movie.
		The revolt after the Rodney King beating verdict should have come as no surprise to anyone who lives in Los Angeles and is really in touch with the rhythms of the city.
	www.fragmentsweb.org /stuff/rodking.html (863 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 29 \| 1992: LA in flames after 'not guilty' verdict
		Fierce rioting has broken out in Los Angeles following the decision by a jury to acquit four white police officers accused of beating fl motorist Rodney King.
		Motorists were dragged from their cars and beaten, cars were overturned and set alight, and at least five people were shot dead.
		The violence is the worst in the city since the Watts riots of 1965, in which 34 people died.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/29/newsid_2500000/2500471.stm (567 words)

	DNK Amazon Store :: Official Negligence : How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD
		Renowned journalist Lou Cannon tells the definitive story of the Rodney King beating, the failure of the LAPD and Los Angeles government, and the subsequent horror of the LA riots.
		In the spring of 1992 five days of rioting laid waste to South Central Los Angeles, took scores of lives, cost the city more than $900 million in property damages, and captured the attention of horrified people worldwide.
		Lou Cannon perfectly pitches his level of detail on the Rodney King beating and the subsequent investigations, trials, and riot.
	www.entertainmentcareers.net /book/ProductDetails.aspx?asin=0813337259 (426 words)

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