Essays on Rodney King

Issue: The current shooting incidents at the hands of police officers are on the rise, with no hint of slowing down. From the shooting of Rodney King in the early 1990s by Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers to shooting of Amadou Diallo in late 1990s at the hands of New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers there have not been as many incidents of what many see as either police brutality or police misconduct in over 20 years. There was a long period of drought where police incidents were sparse. This dry spell broke in 2014, when Officer ...

Modern instances of racism are rather subtle and usually harder to completely analyze from what the victim recounts later. It ranges from a tinge of scorn from the clerk at the usual supermarket to the stench of serious human rights violation by the police. The concept that these acts of racism are isolated and does not signify any underlying pattern was vehemently upheld by many men and women of authority until recently. But as of today, they stand corrected. Even from a passive standpoint, after hearing from a number of such victims, we have come to accept that this ...

Rodney G. King was an African-American taxi driver who came into limelight after being beaten up by four LAPD officers on the night of 2nd March 1991. The incident sparked nation-wide unrest and communal riots leading to fifty four deaths, seven thousand arrests, several injuries and losses worth millions of dollars. “The events brought to the forefront concerns about racism and police brutality within the L.A.P.D.” The incident took place at the night of March 2, 1991 when King was speeding his Hyundai car and was chased down by two patrol officers. He tried to dodge the cops for ...

(Author Name) (Course Name/Number) There is, undoubtedly, a stigma that surrounds rioting and protesting in the United States. If you turn on the radio, you can hear music glorifying riots, talk show hosts discussing recent developments in large metropolis areas, and the collection of opinions surrounding police brutality, the use of military force, and the freedom of speech. In the midst of negative finger pointing at the radicals and crazies that initiate riots, the root cause of the problem is often lost and the public categorizes the group involved in a riot based on the most obvious commonality; race, ...

Remember when the police department as a whole cared about the people they served? When police officers spoke out against corruption and participated in community activities within the neighborhoods they patrolled? It seems those days are gone and have been replaced with almost “random” killings by police, as if there were a lottery drawing, perhaps. Police killings are not the only problem for citizens in America concerning law enforcement. People of all races face brutality, police being less than truthful, or outright lying under oath, and law enforcement officers facing no criminal charges, or even acquittal. Three cases that ...

Abstract

Racism can be defined in many ways but basically racism is the prejudice or discrimination based on race. Since time immemorial racism has been the main cause of the many wars that America as a country has been going through. People can become racist either physically or verbally for example physical violation, intimidation or graffiti. Similarly, Anti Semitism can be defined as a term that is used to describe people who oppose the Jews. Just as racism, anti-Semitism is also discriminatory and it was first used during the holocaust. Racism has been the greatest obstacle that has hindered this country since ...