LA 92 Streets of Fire: The LA Riots Uncensored

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Speaker 1 (00:23):
Few male niggers on motorbike with walking talking in the.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Vicinity of any nine hundred blocks out avalon in a
lot of area I.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Mean chevrolt white and color.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Any four male niggas would.

Speaker 4 (00:35):
Have good thought of shotgunser a delivd store area.

Speaker 5 (00:39):
Four male Negros introduce heavy white color with shot off
chotgun area.

Speaker 6 (00:44):
All hollered ng yillard for Molota sales and all hollered,
I guess be on yellart for mola do con gails.

Speaker 7 (01:38):
This is where it began. This is where the fuse
was lighted. It began with the arrest by white officers
of the California Highway Patrol of two young negroes, one
on a charge of drunk driving, the other his brother,
his passenger. Their mother, who lives nearby, came to the scene.
There was an argument, there was a scuffle. By then
a crowd of several hundred Negroes had gathered. The story
of police brutality quickly spread through the community. Up the

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street of block or so in that direction a church
where a Negro leader is pleaded for peace and were rejected.
That way, the busy intersection where cars were overturned and
burned where a television technician was pulled from his wagon
and almost beaten to death. It was the most widespread,
most destructive racial violence in American history. The burning and looting,

(02:27):
the shooting and beating went on for nearly a week.
Thirty four persons were killed, all but five of the negroes.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
Police Chief Parker have described Los Angeles Negro rioters as
monkeys in a zoo, and Negro leaders have more than
once called for.

Speaker 7 (02:42):
His removal in creating the situation, where was the failure
and the part of the city, the county, the schools.

Speaker 8 (02:48):
This I think is one of the defficulties and meeting.
This is they were trying to find a failure other
than the people themselves.

Speaker 7 (02:55):
And this is a very dangerous mood because it serves
to sort of sanctify the acts.

Speaker 9 (03:01):
Every grievance that was had by the people who started
this thing. There has been nothing done to thought it.
The only thing that was done was that massive forces
were brought in to suppress the actual overt action.

Speaker 10 (03:14):
How has it affected you?

Speaker 11 (03:15):
It's getting tired of being pushed around, but you have
that's our how pushed around? How badly it stopping is
on the street kicking in the doors, kicking down a
police station, and kicking your teeth in.

Speaker 12 (03:27):
Well, there are stiming people on the street.

Speaker 11 (03:28):
Now kicked by now, Oh, it's been done a long
time before.

Speaker 10 (03:33):
Now.

Speaker 13 (03:34):
During this entire incident, we've heard constant references to respect for.

Speaker 9 (03:39):
Law and order and more particularly.

Speaker 7 (03:42):
What they mean is respect for law enforcement.

Speaker 13 (03:45):
Not to really understand the problems of these people, you'd
have to understand what law enforcement has meant to them for.

Speaker 10 (03:52):
A hundred years.

Speaker 13 (03:54):
We're talking about the white man's law enforcement that's responsible
for many of their parents being chased out of the
out on one pretext or another. Under those conditions, you
can understand that the people aren't going to be reverent
about law enforcement and the men who enforce the law.

Speaker 4 (04:11):
What would make it better? What would make all the
riotings stop? I don't think they never stopped, really never.
I mean there may not be Langistan and never stop.

Speaker 5 (04:24):
I don't think.

Speaker 7 (04:26):
When the mccoone Commissions ought to answer questions about watts
can it happen again? So serious and explosive is the situation,
says the Commission, that unless it is checked, the August
riots may be only a curtain raiser to what could
blow up one day in the future. What shall it
avail our nation if we can place a man on
the moon but cannot cure the sickness in our cities.

(04:51):
This is built out for CBS reports in Los Angeles,
good night, out of the ashes.

Speaker 5 (05:02):
Of this community.

Speaker 8 (05:03):
I think that is an opportunity to build a better
society in terms of economic security, better housing conditions, better schools,
and to deal with the police problem, to make Los
Angeles a model city for the nation.

Speaker 14 (05:21):
Thomas Bradley was sworn in today as mayor of Los Angeles,
the largest city in this country.

Speaker 12 (05:25):
Ever to have a black mayor.

Speaker 15 (05:27):
Bradley is a former policeman and the son of a
Texas sharecropper.

Speaker 16 (05:32):
Nodded the victory for Tom Bradley, better.

Speaker 17 (05:34):
Victory for progress, a victory.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
For our children.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 6 (05:44):
Darryl Gates.

Speaker 5 (05:45):
It's been twenty eight years working his way through the
ranks to.

Speaker 12 (05:48):
The top job. He had been Chief Parker's driver and bodyguard.

Speaker 18 (05:51):
His air appearance, I'm going to put my stamp on
this organization. This will be a Darrol Gates department.

Speaker 7 (06:01):
Blacks and liberals have become intensely critical of what they
charge is excessive use of force by.

Speaker 19 (06:06):
The Los Angeles Police.

Speaker 20 (06:08):
Department delegates is causing the kind of polarization that is dangerous.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
Many Americans think of Hollywood when they think of Los Angeles,
but Los Angeles is also the port of entry for
America's new immigrants from Asia and from Latin America.

Speaker 21 (06:24):
Of the United States of America, in the last fifteen years,
more than two million immigrants from around the world.

Speaker 9 (06:33):
A courting of the city.

Speaker 22 (06:35):
Many of the city's new small businesses are the American
dream of the foreign born.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Our city is a stunning ethnic and cultural mosaic. We
have forged a sense of identity, of common concern and destiny.
In the late doctor Martin Luther King's words, I am
honored to stand here today and look out upon faces
of many different colors, intermingled like the waters of a river.

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Yet I see only one face, the face of the future.

Speaker 23 (07:10):
Thank you, one, two three.

Speaker 24 (07:45):
I am pleased to announce that at midnight tonight, all
United States and Coalition forces will suspend offensive combat operations.
This is not a time of euphoria, certainly not a
time to gloat, but it is a time of pride.
Pride in our troops, pride in our nation and the

(08:09):
people whose strength and resolve made victory quick, decisive.

Speaker 12 (08:14):
And just.

Speaker 25 (08:21):
This latest gallipol shows people in the United States feeling
positive about their country and their president.

Speaker 10 (08:27):
Following the Allied victory in the Gulf.

Speaker 14 (08:31):
Friday, LA residents will have to drink, shower and consume
ten percent less water.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
Mayor Bradley signed the water conservation measure today.

Speaker 26 (08:39):
Kaye, you economy looks none too good.

Speaker 27 (08:42):
In fact, they keep saying that the recession is the
only thing pulling us out of inflation of.

Speaker 25 (08:47):
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Speaker 12 (08:48):
Blaud in sixteen one long meeting, probably Blody in sixteen.

Speaker 26 (08:51):
And landcast pro body five degrees kfivm sty.

Speaker 11 (09:04):
Where uh south found I'm a pact at about top
thirty miles an hour.

Speaker 28 (09:08):
Has UH parent It's gonna be three mile blacks in
it on the white UH one day up believe.

Speaker 29 (09:13):
They way they were gout found on the field.

Speaker 9 (09:16):
From then I say, will stop alive and sale.

Speaker 30 (09:19):
Deal to the uhle where we were about.

Speaker 31 (09:22):
Here we're at board.

Speaker 18 (09:23):
The guy or that I got it here he found.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
Gets little kiddy.

Speaker 32 (09:45):
H an unusual twist in a case of alleged race

(10:16):
based police brutality in Los Angeles. Neither the police nor
the suspect knew that a home video camera had captured
the scene.

Speaker 25 (10:24):
It began as a high speed chase and ended early
Sunday morning with the motorist a black mail being brutally
beaten and picked.

Speaker 33 (10:30):
The victim was struck as many as fifty six times
and suffered several broken bones.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
Fifty six times.

Speaker 5 (10:38):
That's what the American public saw on video day.

Speaker 19 (10:42):
George Holliday lives across the street.

Speaker 32 (10:45):
He had his video camera out and it recorded what
happened as the suspect was being arrested.

Speaker 34 (10:50):
Got me camera sort of ready and looked across the street,
and that's when I saw that the accident was going on.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
The suspect, identified as Robbie Glenn King.

Speaker 22 (10:58):
King, who is married and has two step children, was
on parole after serving time for armed robbery.

Speaker 35 (11:03):
His wife says, that's no excuse for what happened. It
was a traffic violation.

Speaker 36 (11:07):
How come they just couldn't arrest him and give him
some kind of fine or something.

Speaker 35 (11:10):
Why it had to beat the mess out of Teach.

Speaker 37 (11:12):
Doctors said that he suffered a concussion one of his
eye sockets was pulverized. His cheekbone was so pushed in
from the blows to his face that it would require
reconstructive searchery.

Speaker 38 (11:23):
From what I've seen, none of the prisoners of war
from American forces taken by Sadamuzen came back beaten that badly.

Speaker 33 (11:29):
Los Angeles police say the incident was not racially motivated,
but the black community is not buying that. About three
hundred members of the NAACP marched on police headquarters today.

Speaker 12 (11:40):
This is an aberration.

Speaker 18 (11:42):
This is something that should never have happened. We had
in place all of the procedures that would keep.

Speaker 12 (11:49):
It from happening. Those procedures fell down because of human error.

Speaker 18 (11:53):
The ACLU said that receives about fifty five polls a
week from people alleging police brutality.

Speaker 24 (11:59):
The incident only Sunday morning is not an isolated incident.

Speaker 39 (12:03):
The difference this time is that we have the proof.

Speaker 21 (12:20):
That what happened to your Yeah, any idea at all?
How many times you were hit by a club? What
do you remember about that?

Speaker 40 (12:38):
At several times? Several times? And then stones and kicks
pick up a year.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
For sure, this is something we see see.

Speaker 40 (12:48):
That what is that from that's from uh some kind
of device that they use. They sh shocked me. They
gotta be kick out of that.

Speaker 21 (13:03):
Well, it makes you say they got a kick out
of him because of how long they left it in me.

Speaker 40 (13:08):
You know, it was like they had a little toy
and they wanted to see how at work.

Speaker 21 (13:13):
What kinds of things did you hear from the officers?

Speaker 10 (13:16):
Did you hear any kind of slurs? Though?

Speaker 40 (13:19):
What do you mean what slurs?

Speaker 21 (13:21):
Were there any kind of racial comments made at all?

Speaker 7 (13:23):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (13:24):
Racial?

Speaker 40 (13:24):
No, I didn't know. I didn't hear it.

Speaker 3 (13:28):
You can cut this from the tape if you want.

Speaker 26 (13:31):
But Rod's family has uh made it very clear that
they're not looking to turn this into a uh racial crusade.

Speaker 41 (13:39):
Mr King doesn't wanna make uh make it out as
though they did this just because he was a black man.
That may have been incidental to it, and they may
be personal motives that these officers had. We don't know
that yet, but at the present time, it isn't seem
like that.

Speaker 31 (14:14):
As you know, the District Attorney's office has been conducting
an investigation into the beating of Rodney King, and I
am announcing today that we have obtained indictments against four
Los Angeles police officers for their role in the beating
of mister King LAPD Officer Lawrence Powell, Timothy Wynn, Theodore Brassino,

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and Sergeant Stacy Kuhn have been indicted for assault with
a deadly weapon and for excessive use of force under.

Speaker 12 (14:43):
Color of authority.

Speaker 31 (14:45):
Officer Powell and Wynd and Sergeant Kuhn are further charged
with inflicting great bodily injury in the brutal attack that
has now been witnessed by millions of people. Under California law,
these are felonies punishable by up to seven years is
in state prison. Sergeant Cohn in Officer Powell have also
been indicted for filing false reports. All four officers surrendered

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this morning to the District Attorney's office. They have been arrested, fingerprinted,
and photed.

Speaker 27 (15:17):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 22 (15:27):
This is World News Tonight with Peter Jennings sitting in
tonight in Washington.

Speaker 12 (15:32):
Ted Copple, good evening.

Speaker 7 (15:34):
The evidence is new, it's dramatic, and it's devastating to
those Los Angeles police officers involved in the March third
beating of that black motorist.

Speaker 42 (15:43):
One of the two officers who wielded batons that evening
relate a message after the arrest to another car, saying, quote,
sounds almost as exciting as our last call.

Speaker 14 (15:53):
It was right out of gorillas.

Speaker 43 (15:54):
In the midst one policeman involved in the beating said quote,
I haven't beaten anyone.

Speaker 25 (15:59):
This bad long time, another joke later, saying I'm sure
the lizard didn't deserve it.

Speaker 22 (16:05):
Mayor Tom Bradley said the transcript raises more questions about
police command.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
I think it has been devastating to the image of
this city and especially to our police devironment.

Speaker 44 (16:15):
It's very apparent that some, not all, but some of
those offices are clearly out of control, and they have
to ultimately be willing to take a good hard look
at the leadership of the department.

Speaker 25 (16:37):
Mister President, all of us, I think have been stunned
by what has happened. And I can't imagine that the chief,
where anybody else in the city would condone the kind
of conversation that took place both electronically and by voice
in that Foothill division that night. Blacks are not animals,

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They're not lizards, they're not apes, they're not gorillas.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
Any more than any of us are.

Speaker 10 (17:07):
They're human beings.

Speaker 25 (17:09):
The first way to open the door to brutalizing people
in any place is to cheapen their worth as human beings.
And when I read the transcripts of the conversation, I
was appalled. But the ability to freely converse in racist
terminology suggest a level of tolerance for that kind of
discussion that is unacceptable by any standard of decency.

Speaker 18 (17:35):
Well, first of all, this is a department that this
council has supported over and over again. This is a
police department that has supported you, each of you. And
I just tell you this, If you don't speak out
on behalf of the men and women of the Los
Angeles Police Department that have served the people in this city, well,
if you don't do that at this crucial moment in

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our history, and I'm going to tell you, you're gonna
have a police department that is not going to be
the kind of department that you want, the kind of
department that people deserve.

Speaker 15 (18:07):
Mister Wu, thank you. I want to know did you
mean that as a threat. In other words, that if
if I or other members of the council are going
to be criticizing you or the department. Are you saying
that you will withhold support of these services to fight
crime in our districts.

Speaker 18 (18:28):
That is the most insulting thing I have heard on
this council floor and all the time I've been here.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
And I've been here a lot longer than you've been alive.

Speaker 18 (18:37):
Absolutely not.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
It's a professional organization.

Speaker 26 (18:41):
What do you think we are.

Speaker 45 (18:56):
He shall be up against the wall and started to strangle.

Speaker 46 (19:01):
I cannot breath.

Speaker 45 (19:03):
You try to kick me in the testicles. He threw
me aside and said, get them.

Speaker 6 (19:07):
Frot in your hat.

Speaker 41 (19:08):
That's cur.

Speaker 47 (19:15):
We found one case where a dog attacked and dipped
the chest of a sixteen year old girl. The dogs
are quite large and aggressive. They will rip away flesh
and muscle, they will tear out blood vessels, and they
will sometimes break phones.

Speaker 48 (19:31):
The police send our kids completely conflicting messages.

Speaker 12 (19:35):
They're in our schools every single day, and yet our
kids see them on TV beating a man like a dog.

Speaker 44 (19:43):
The police are trained to approach black men as criminals
first and citizens second.

Speaker 48 (19:50):
But before you leave South Central, you need to understand
that herbal abuse happens here every day and every night.
Head out of the car, nigger, assume the position. Nigger,
sit on the curve, nigger right post down on the ground.

Speaker 46 (20:04):
Nigger.

Speaker 39 (20:05):
We're saying, this is what we're confronted with, and when
we speak out, the first thing they say is why
are they getting so restless?

Speaker 12 (20:13):
Why should not we get wrestless?

Speaker 48 (20:15):
People are talking about taking this to the streets, and
we ain't talking about just marching.

Speaker 43 (20:35):
Another widely publicized incident captured on videotape in Los Angeles.

Speaker 7 (20:45):
This grainny security camera videotape graphically depicts the last few
moments of fifteen year old Latasha Harlan's life.

Speaker 22 (20:52):
Store owner sun Jah du thought fifteen year old Latasha
Harland's was going to steal some orange juice.

Speaker 49 (20:58):
She had the money in her hand, you can see
them money in the videotape, and the suspect grabbed the
backpack and there became a physical altercation over the backpack,
and as our victim turned to walk away from the scene,
the suspect raised a weapon and shot the victim in
the back of the head.

Speaker 10 (21:22):
Natasha was an a student on a roll. Student.

Speaker 20 (21:25):
She got money every week for her allow so she
did not have to steal orange juices.

Speaker 10 (21:30):
The store clerk, a Korean woman, is now in jail.

Speaker 30 (21:33):
The black community is outraged over the killing.

Speaker 43 (21:35):
The NAACP is demanding the clerk he tried for murder.

Speaker 19 (21:43):
The case has become a symbol of tensions between two
large groups and this ethnically diverse city, African Americans and
the Koreans who become successful merchants in many of the
poorest black neighborhoods.

Speaker 50 (21:56):
As many as three hundred thousand Koreans live in Los Angeles,
of them in an area known as Koreatown. Some Blacks
see the Koreans as a merchant class that takes advantage
of the Black community.

Speaker 39 (22:07):
Why don't you open a market that we could do
to our family.

Speaker 51 (22:12):
We are deeply concerned that this incident may be detrimental
to the positive efforts between.

Speaker 50 (22:19):
The two communities.

Speaker 51 (22:21):
In order to strengthen our bonds, we will actively join
with the African American community to develop measures to prevent
further tragedy.

Speaker 3 (22:42):
Yeah, would you please get the the.

Speaker 52 (22:53):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (23:01):
The pour cause read the words how to import and
cause you to treat you to a little kind of action.

Speaker 53 (23:08):
Clim send to feel you a volunteering anst in violation
of the exception one night to a fela a lesson
to who's best that far.

Speaker 34 (23:19):
You can't want her life.

Speaker 10 (23:24):
It is now a time for healing.

Speaker 43 (23:27):
It is not a time for rhetoric, which serves no
purpose other than to fuel the fire. It's like throwing
gasoline on a fire that's already burning. It is my
opinion that missus Dow is not a danger to the
community and that she is not going to reoffend.

Speaker 54 (23:45):
I know a criminal when I see one. I know
a person who presents a danger to the community when
I see one. When I don't, I treat that person
as something other than that.

Speaker 14 (24:00):
H h.

Speaker 12 (24:07):
Yeah, we got away with murder, I damn sure.

Speaker 55 (24:12):
Hope so that there would be all the hell in
the power somebody would care stand up.

Speaker 12 (24:16):
I see that's insanity for exactly shot.

Speaker 35 (24:20):
People once again, whay just retreated on this tree.

Speaker 20 (24:24):
Get a car since we don't pick cotton anymore and
cut sugar cane.

Speaker 39 (24:29):
Well, our lives is not not worth anything.

Speaker 11 (24:34):
I mean, you can have a black person killed or
with a video with eyewitnesses, and this is what you'll get.

Speaker 45 (24:51):
Door shut that door.

Speaker 20 (24:55):
Unfortunately, ain't charge probably never been down here.

Speaker 6 (25:02):
A judge who.

Speaker 39 (25:04):
Probably knows very little about this community. A judge decided
that the lights.

Speaker 12 (25:12):
Was not dubgable enough.

Speaker 5 (25:14):
The fashion was killed, our family was killed.

Speaker 39 (25:18):
Racism is not the Korean killing her. Racism is a
court sisto w tall allow her to kill her.

Speaker 56 (25:24):
We have to show Los Angeles that we are resilient
and we are permitted to the salvation of our people,
and we are prepared to be simply disappeared.

Speaker 22 (27:00):
Judge Bernard Cammons caught observers by surprise when he reversed
himself and announced that he would grant a change of
venue in the trial of the four police officers charged
in connection with the beating of motorist Rodney King.

Speaker 18 (27:11):
The change of venue motion is greatly entwined with whether
we can get jurors, and I'm very concerned whether we
can get jurors who are untainted.

Speaker 22 (27:21):
Other high profile cases, such as those of Charles Manson
and Robert Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan were not transferred out
of Los Angeles despite high publicity, But defense attorneys say
this case is different.

Speaker 57 (27:34):
Everyone has opinion on the guilty innocence of these defendants,
and that's why it will be very difficult to get
a fair trial.

Speaker 35 (27:41):
To move the trial away from the swarming controversy in
the LA media, the venue was changed to the Simi Valley,
a mostly white suburb of Los Angeles where many police
officers live.

Speaker 46 (27:52):
Seami Valley is a town of one hundred thousand people
just thirty five miles north of Los Angeles. Seemi Valley
residents are eighty eight percent white. Just one and a
half percent of the people who live here are black.

Speaker 42 (28:07):
M h.

Speaker 58 (28:15):
I'm thinking about right now, before you got to start
banging up my car.

Speaker 12 (28:17):
I'm gonna you have another rocket.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
Things waiting a long time. How do they get it
going a good feeling?

Speaker 12 (28:26):
Yes, m h, m.

Speaker 10 (28:45):
H, m hm. Did you say anything to mister king, Yes,
What did you say to him?

Speaker 59 (29:02):
Yelled at him to lay down on the ground, Get
down on the ground, A series of those commands.

Speaker 26 (29:07):
A series, Yes, he repeated it right and telling dream
what happened next?

Speaker 59 (29:12):
Hey, I continued to hit him and then knocked him
to the ground, yelled at him to stay on the ground,
and he repeated the motion again, getting up again. I
was completely in fear for my life, scared to death
that if this guy got back up he was going
to take my gun away from me or there was
going to be a shooting, and I was doing everything

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I could to keep him down on the ground.

Speaker 60 (29:38):
At any time during this evening, did it go through
your mind that this was not a human being that
you were beating.

Speaker 12 (29:47):
No, he wasn't an animal, was he?

Speaker 3 (29:49):
No, sir, he was acting like one.

Speaker 6 (29:51):
He was just acting like one.

Speaker 61 (29:52):
Yes.

Speaker 12 (29:52):
Was he acting like a gorilla?

Speaker 7 (29:54):
No, sir?

Speaker 60 (29:55):
Now this call that involved these African Americans?

Speaker 25 (29:57):
Was it in a jungle?

Speaker 12 (30:00):
You know what a jungle?

Speaker 33 (30:02):
No?

Speaker 12 (30:03):
Was it at the zoo?

Speaker 7 (30:04):
No?

Speaker 12 (30:05):
Were there any gorillas around?

Speaker 10 (30:06):
I didn't see any?

Speaker 3 (30:08):
Sorry, what are you.

Speaker 12 (30:09):
Watching during all this?

Speaker 18 (30:11):
What are you thinking of.

Speaker 40 (30:11):
Your posts in that.

Speaker 62 (30:14):
I'm thinking that, uh, mister King has been subjected to
uh an enormous amount of a pain and he's uh not.
It's almost as if his body is an.

Speaker 10 (30:23):
Esthetize to the pain. What were you thinking now?

Speaker 2 (30:27):
I was thinking that I have exhausted all of uh
the use of force that I have short of deadly
force at this time.

Speaker 62 (30:34):
I'm thinking, at this time, I'm either gonna have to
use uh a choke hold.

Speaker 12 (30:37):
Or my weapon.

Speaker 10 (30:39):
And why didn't you want to use a choke culcuer,
because in Los Angeles the choke hold.

Speaker 7 (30:46):
UH is associated with the death of blacks.

Speaker 10 (30:50):
How do you view looking at this videotape, sir, It's
violent and it's brutal. Was this anything that you enjoyed?

Speaker 2 (30:58):
No, why was it done.

Speaker 10 (31:01):
It's done to.

Speaker 57 (31:01):
Control UH, an aggressive, combative suspect.

Speaker 3 (31:04):
And sometimes police work is brutal. It's just the fact
of life.

Speaker 42 (31:12):
Every day, regular folks from the public file in to
watch the trial, and you can too, if you could
beat the rush.

Speaker 61 (31:17):
Actually, you have a pretty good chance. We have seventeen
seats allocated for the public. However, the other seats that
we have reserved, if people don't show up for those seats,
then we immediately open 'em up to the public.

Speaker 36 (31:30):
If you wanna come here, though, here's a little box.

Speaker 61 (31:32):
They should dress appropriately for court. Of course, nothing that
says anything about the trial itself, or any type of
racial slurs, anything that might be misconstrued by anyone.

Speaker 3 (31:44):
Well, a quart order covers that you have another shirt.
The bar public consent, I make your less and judgment.

Speaker 60 (32:03):
Stopping the video of three point fifty one oh two.

Speaker 10 (32:06):
Have you seen mister King swing at anyone no, I
have him.

Speaker 60 (32:10):
Have you seen him punch at anyone?

Speaker 8 (32:11):
No, I have him.

Speaker 60 (32:12):
Is it your testimony then, at any point after three
forty two twenty any baton blow received by mister King
is unreasonable, not necessary.

Speaker 14 (32:20):
Yes, here it is. Had Sergeant Kuhn not been there
to control that situation, as ugly as it looks, Rodney
King wouldn't have been a home now, and maybe Sergeant
Kuhn would have had to go tell some officer's family

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why they didn't come home.

Speaker 60 (32:44):
You've got this man down. He's not doing anything. He's
not trying to escape, he's not trying to resist. When
you reach that point on that tape where you say
enough is enough, that's what unreasonable.

Speaker 10 (32:57):
For it starts.

Speaker 57 (33:00):
System of justice is based on the belief that if
we get twelve people from the community to fairly and
dispassionately decide this issue, devoid of prejudice and bias, then
the truth will come out, justice will be done. Think
ahead and make a decision now about what you will
be able to say years from now.

Speaker 10 (33:19):
I was true to my oath, I was true to
the law. I was true to myself.

Speaker 63 (34:04):
What especially that, h.

Speaker 3 (34:15):
What's your package for.

Speaker 12 (34:21):
That's for the opposite.

Speaker 3 (34:22):
Yes, sir, is the defendant.

Speaker 12 (34:29):
Do you support those guys? You better believe it. Why
those guys are heathens. Yeah, those guys are animalistic. He yeah,
they're they're holding the jungle back tiger jungle. No, sir,
I think the defendants of jungle people. Okay.

Speaker 40 (34:43):
For you to support those defendants is another is an
indication of your humanity, your immorality.

Speaker 50 (34:48):
You got a constitutional right of poor judgment, and you're
exercise right now.

Speaker 40 (34:52):
You have a constitutional right of just inconspicuous inhumanities.

Speaker 64 (34:55):
Oh blowing down?

Speaker 54 (34:57):
Yeah right, that's ridiculous for you to do that.

Speaker 12 (35:00):
Yeah, keep your mouth shut.

Speaker 6 (35:01):
I didn't ask you down.

Speaker 12 (35:02):
I have a constitution right. Freemum speaks brother, Yeah, I
aim it somewhere else. Okay, that's disgusting.

Speaker 65 (35:10):
Yeah you mind, morning, sergeant at the ball game and
barbecue go yet.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
Well the barbecue is great.

Speaker 32 (35:31):
Looks like you're dressed for today.

Speaker 10 (35:33):
I got my clothes in Cornish.

Speaker 12 (35:36):
Can you just tell us what it's like the last
few days for you.

Speaker 2 (35:39):
It's been hard, but okay, I'll make it.

Speaker 35 (35:42):
I'll make it.

Speaker 10 (35:43):
The waiting s gott to be extremely to talk about.

Speaker 3 (35:45):
Sure, thank you just out of curiosity.

Speaker 10 (35:48):
You get a conscious desuon of.

Speaker 3 (35:49):
The thought goes and play your side of it.

Speaker 50 (35:51):
No, not really, it's just down David.

Speaker 12 (35:55):
I have nothing to hide.

Speaker 7 (35:56):
Really, shit.

Speaker 27 (36:00):
That you can use the court on the me.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
What do you think of the donuts?

Speaker 10 (36:03):
Then?

Speaker 12 (36:03):
I don't know which the donut?

Speaker 11 (36:04):
Shit, I haven't opened it yet.

Speaker 45 (36:06):
And you're not a hero, buddy, We're behind you.

Speaker 64 (36:11):
I don't for that guy.

Speaker 10 (36:21):
Excuse me, mister wit How was it waiting right now?

Speaker 2 (36:26):
Waiting?

Speaker 11 (36:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 45 (36:29):
No, I mean for the verdict.

Speaker 6 (36:30):
How do you feel about it? It's gotta be really tough.

Speaker 9 (36:50):
So let's go to Brian Live now at the courthouse
in see Me Valley.

Speaker 16 (36:53):
Well that everybody is in a state of nervous. Uh
uh uh state of nervous. That's just waiting for this
decision to come down. If right now there are people
outside where is a beefed up security here for what
we don't know, but I'm supposing that they're prepared for
whatever may arise in the event of a verdict. So
everyone's in a state of repose anticipation five four three

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two one.

Speaker 23 (37:15):
Hello.

Speaker 6 (37:19):
I want to come to us live as soon as
we can get our picture.

Speaker 16 (37:23):
I'm told that we have the court room verdict, so
we will go live there.

Speaker 59 (37:28):
Have verdicts been reached on all accounts as to all
dependants who are mentioned in those counts, and have you
brought with you the verdict forms for those counts?

Speaker 10 (37:38):
Okay? Would you hand them to the bailiff.

Speaker 3 (37:40):
Place title of cord and cause.

Speaker 66 (37:58):
We, the Jury and the above entitled action find the
defendant Lawrence M. Powell not guilty of the crime of
assault by force likely to produce great bodily injury and
with a deadly weapon, in violation of pingicod's Section two
four or five A one felony as chars and count
one of the Amended Indictment, this twenty ninth day of

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April nineteen ninety two, signed by the Foreman.

Speaker 3 (38:24):
We, the Jury and the.

Speaker 66 (38:25):
Above entitled action, find the defendant Timothy E. Wind not
guilty of the crime of assault by force likely to
produce great bodily injury and with a deadly weapon. We,
the Jury, and the above entitled action find the defendant
Theodor J. Bersino not guilty of the crime of assault
by force likely to produce great bodily injury and with

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a deadly weapon.

Speaker 3 (38:49):
We The jury and the above entitled.

Speaker 66 (38:50):
Action find the defendant, Stacy C. Kohn, not guilty of
the crime of assault by force likely to produce great
bodily injury and with a deadly webs.

Speaker 3 (39:00):
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, These are verdicts. So
say you one, so say you all.

Speaker 6 (39:06):
Yes.

Speaker 32 (39:38):
The jury in the Los Angeles police brutality trial has
just reached its verdicts. The four police officers who were
videotaped repeatedly beating an unarmed man were found not guilty
on all but one count.

Speaker 6 (39:51):
Not one of the four.

Speaker 67 (39:52):
Police officers seen on videotape beating.

Speaker 3 (39:55):
Mister King a year ago.

Speaker 6 (39:59):
Not guilty on.

Speaker 7 (40:02):
One county, guilty of all charges except.

Speaker 44 (40:12):
Of the.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
Said.

Speaker 50 (40:17):
Racism didn't enter into the jury's deliberations.

Speaker 12 (40:19):
None of the juris is black. There were ten whites,
one Asian, and one Hispanic.

Speaker 2 (40:28):
Day this jury told the world that what we all
saw with our own eyes wasn't a crime. Today, that
jury asked us to accept the senseless and brutal beating
of a helpless man. Today, that jury said we should
tolerate such conduct by those who are sworn to protect

(40:49):
and serve My friends, I'm here to tell this jury, no, No,
our eyes did not deceive us.

Speaker 3 (40:59):
We saw what we saw.

Speaker 35 (41:00):
What we saw was a crime.

Speaker 26 (41:02):
You got another white jury saying that it's okay for
white cops to beat up black people, and that's racist.

Speaker 12 (41:08):
In American style.

Speaker 64 (41:09):
And they spend that way from the.

Speaker 7 (41:10):
Get They're making it bad for all the good cops.

Speaker 45 (41:13):
If they're gonna let dirty cops off.

Speaker 68 (41:15):
How does that make a guy who's trying to do
his job feel a little point if.

Speaker 57 (41:19):
He wanted to be a cops just like his father.

Speaker 39 (41:21):
But I'm just seeing that take.

Speaker 69 (41:22):
He doesn't want to be that anymore.

Speaker 17 (41:24):
No, I have to train them for us to try
to go back to tell black people in the community
that justice is blind. They say, you're right, It is
so blind that they can't see us. It is so
blind to whenever something happened to one of us, we
get the max if we don't get killed first. And
so it is blind.

Speaker 38 (41:41):
Where's my JUSTI just letty is, Letty have person drive
down in my streets with a bellyful bear.

Speaker 3 (41:49):
But you know that there are a lot of people
on the way to beat.

Speaker 70 (41:54):
How would you respond to them?

Speaker 3 (41:55):
What will be the reaction.

Speaker 12 (41:57):
Oh, I don't think I have to respond to them.
I have to respond to themselves make their own decisions.
They have all the facts in front of them, I
would hope, and that's what they should base it on.

Speaker 59 (42:05):
It shouldn't be any sort of an emotional thing.

Speaker 71 (42:07):
I'm glad that you guys showed us to the world
to let them see how black people are treated in
this country. You know, you guys do not respect us.
You fell with sub creatures. If I went to beach,
Wait a minute, sweet, if I went to beat your
dog the way they beat this man, I'd be in jail.

Speaker 9 (42:24):
These guys are going out to have a drink.

Speaker 42 (42:26):
Los Angeles emerges from this verdict to the rest of
the country.

Speaker 32 (42:30):
Do you think.

Speaker 2 (42:32):
Why don't we say the rest of the world? President
Bush stands up to challenge leaders or nations around the
world to respect human rights and to not engage in
a denial of those rights to citizens. They're gonna laugh
at him. They're going to point to this video tape

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and remember the name Rodney King.

Speaker 71 (43:00):
I like them all the brothers in South central l
A get together, get out in the street, stop killing.

Speaker 39 (43:05):
Each other, and let's deal with.

Speaker 9 (43:07):
What the real problem is and who is the real
proto white people?

Speaker 39 (43:12):
White people?

Speaker 71 (43:13):
You got all the economic power you sell in the
country to the Japanese. We've been here far Nutan thirty
seven years and don't get nothing.

Speaker 39 (43:20):
But I asked what we do you know the first
look we get by the plats, what are you doing?
In our community speak. I've had Coquette throwing at me.
This is the brother of the valley stop. They don't
seen any police to go buy this. I'm not gonna

(43:42):
if they just got a woods, if they just la
you don't watch.

Speaker 12 (43:49):
It's had a bad message.

Speaker 38 (43:51):
It says it's okay to go ahead and beat somebody
when they're down and kick the crap out of them.
If it's not videotape, don't worry about another brother officer
won't turn you in. And if a brother officer does
turn you, you don't. We will get white jurors or
whoever it takes. And you walk and you're protected by
the system. You're backed up by the system. In fact
that it would happen here, what happened anywhere is disgusting.
It's a good time, folks. If you've got a plane ticket,

(44:11):
cash it in and get the heck out of Dodge.
This is gonna be a bad place to live.

Speaker 39 (44:15):
The next person gonna be a white person. Then you're
gonna see what what happens.

Speaker 12 (44:19):
Then what everybody?

Speaker 26 (44:26):
What I said?

Speaker 12 (44:56):
Your family like an it's gonna be a problem.

Speaker 39 (44:58):
Move off, guys read a ship.

Speaker 52 (45:05):
Pick you hell.

Speaker 12 (45:15):
It's not sore man racist piece.

Speaker 6 (45:18):
Of ship's cheering, amand he's cheering a wand.

Speaker 39 (45:21):
Man ain't gonna cheering hair that's blue and ship.

Speaker 52 (45:24):
Get her hair.

Speaker 39 (45:25):
Cutch up.

Speaker 10 (46:26):
To the.

Speaker 39 (46:31):
Car, hayhard, no army and a.

Speaker 69 (46:58):
Course over warse at the top of the wars and
lots alive, owns.

Speaker 52 (47:10):
A lot.

Speaker 63 (47:12):
O good.

Speaker 1 (47:52):
Tonight.

Speaker 42 (47:52):
We must tell our children one more time, stay cool.

Speaker 47 (48:02):
That for African American children and adults, freedom is not
yet a reality in the United States.

Speaker 39 (48:14):
Just that, jo, just that, just that, just they haven't
chucked in that, just basing the facts out here. Trump
and right Trump and right reality you all my life
and Roman.

Speaker 63 (48:32):
Is I know.

Speaker 39 (48:37):
Sting in there talking about peace.

Speaker 45 (48:40):
Every time somebody talking about peace, we get a foot asses.

Speaker 39 (48:43):
Turn you're not talking about peace like the wake up,
like community, wake up. I gotta live in a group,

(49:11):
mon a lot and look up, look up the book.

Speaker 41 (49:49):
What do you that we think about it?

Speaker 5 (49:51):
The rock a boy the.

Speaker 33 (49:59):
Up.

Speaker 72 (50:00):
You need help most Normandy trade.

Speaker 12 (50:03):
For officer down.

Speaker 28 (50:04):
I hope any's help get his ass kick because I
don't like police.

Speaker 23 (50:09):
And I mean now with.

Speaker 39 (50:11):
Road reporters employed, Lock florensa nominy for you, we come.

Speaker 30 (50:17):
Okay, sure number three man, we're above Low picture right now.

Speaker 63 (50:20):
We got many offictures of many people running.

Speaker 7 (51:19):
I know.

Speaker 30 (51:22):
Everybody out about.

Speaker 54 (51:25):
Every questing everyone out of the area for the Normandy,
everyone out of the area for Normandy.

Speaker 40 (52:05):
People.

Speaker 73 (52:05):
Man, I'm angry, but I'm not surprised.

Speaker 74 (52:42):
Over four hundred years our people have suffered not only
civil rights, but the right to be a human being.

Speaker 39 (52:54):
Don't fall victim through the decision you sees.

Speaker 74 (52:58):
You're not at alone across section of the community today
because one of our brothers have been unjustly deep and
it has been justified by a jewelry.

Speaker 39 (53:14):
That shows us that we can't get justice in Alra.
How long do we have to see these things?

Speaker 75 (53:24):
How long before we come together in Low for ourselves?
How many more Bridney Kings nothing have to be? How
many more Natasha Hollands.

Speaker 39 (53:38):
Doesn't have to be.

Speaker 67 (53:54):
Right, brother.

Speaker 45 (53:56):
Look why boy, that's right at the Mexicans.

Speaker 63 (54:00):
That that.

Speaker 76 (54:11):
I'm doing live in a second, stand by, anybody keep
a live picture.

Speaker 19 (54:14):
Okay, you let it go.

Speaker 39 (54:29):
You turn it around, right man, y'all we kill it.

Speaker 77 (54:38):
Apparently groups of youths are on the streets in south
central Los Angeles. There are reports that they are throwing
rocks and bottles.

Speaker 8 (54:49):
Let's get the.

Speaker 78 (54:49):
Latest something situation now and go to new chapter thirteen.

Speaker 76 (54:52):
Jim, you're looking at a live picture. There's been a
mini riot at this location. Tom's liquor store has been looted.
At this point, hanging on getting a report for the police.

(55:21):
Go ahead, okay, if now there's now been a chance
to alert for this area. They've set up a command
post and the officers have been ordered to stay out
of this area.

Speaker 68 (55:37):
There's a riot detrac area.

Speaker 78 (55:40):
If I understand, we have a helicopter shot now. This
is over the command center that's at fifty fourth the
van ness can see. Certainly they're the concentration of police vehicles.

Speaker 76 (55:52):
The part apartment is aware the situation.

Speaker 71 (55:54):
As fun and Army.

Speaker 45 (55:54):
They are holding back on their rebound.

Speaker 72 (55:56):
For the present time. We are not going to go
in that area or anybody.

Speaker 76 (55:59):
I work in a number of radios aboard news copters thirteen.
What we're doing is we have people aboard that are
relaying information to the police, helicopters and the emergency operations center.

Speaker 12 (56:10):
Of the city.

Speaker 76 (56:10):
We're also showing a live picture that they're seeing. They
know what's going on down here. They're attacking everyone that

(56:59):
comes to a stop here at this intersection. Rocks and
bottles being thrown in another car. They're now pulling the
door off the car. If you are in this area,
you don't want to come down. You a man, come
over town. Now they're pulling the driver out. They're kicking

(57:20):
the driver and beating the driver.

Speaker 52 (57:23):
All this guy did was.

Speaker 12 (57:25):
Enter this area. That's his only crime. Hit the siren dog.

Speaker 39 (57:28):
Oh my god, oh like oh, these are absolutely brutal attack.

Speaker 12 (57:34):
Terrible, terrible pictures.

Speaker 13 (58:07):
Man is up now, his clothes are torn, he's still
bleeding all over the thing.

Speaker 12 (58:10):
He's trying to get back into his truck. He is
getting back into his truck, and I.

Speaker 79 (58:14):
Hope he has enough power to on his own edition
to get out of the area.

Speaker 45 (58:17):
I'm a news reporters.

Speaker 52 (59:54):
My down, my f.

Speaker 39 (01:00:02):
Can you say the Dons, but there's nobody.

Speaker 45 (01:00:07):
Don't to mead a kill?

Speaker 8 (01:00:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 20 (01:00:36):
H what can he say?

Speaker 30 (01:01:18):
Oh?

Speaker 39 (01:01:18):
I got live with now what's happen?

Speaker 14 (01:01:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 52 (01:01:22):
Yeah, I'm not.

Speaker 39 (01:01:25):
I've never ready to go live.

Speaker 3 (01:01:27):
Please, you boys haven't.

Speaker 50 (01:01:30):
Been Are we back now?

Speaker 17 (01:01:32):
Talk you're gonna take something here, We're gonna We're gonna.

Speaker 39 (01:01:34):
Go and leap her and show you the core of
this thing.

Speaker 23 (01:01:37):
What's going on?

Speaker 39 (01:01:38):
Let's go this way?

Speaker 48 (01:01:39):
Please, let you go just no, just stop, no three,
let's not taking there's no floods.

Speaker 12 (01:01:49):
Go Christmas with food.

Speaker 55 (01:01:52):
You don't watch what.

Speaker 44 (01:01:56):
You we're talking about.

Speaker 80 (01:01:58):
You're gonna through them about hundred FITA at least over here,
very angry people, they are joining signs. They have taken
over Los Angeles Street and again situations very vollatimes.

Speaker 39 (01:02:09):
People go from vaulting the office, are throwing things in there.

Speaker 22 (01:02:15):
Ron, is this an organized demonstration or.

Speaker 6 (01:02:18):
I think how?

Speaker 18 (01:02:19):
I think it started out as an organized demonstration and uh,
and then it grew and grew, and now now it
has been for.

Speaker 3 (01:02:28):
The past hour or so, pretty much a standoff here.

Speaker 1 (01:02:34):
You know, I might do now, okay not.

Speaker 27 (01:02:38):
Michael think I've apolated dramatically and eve fifteen minutes.

Speaker 39 (01:02:41):
There is the boot tag that you're looking at.

Speaker 80 (01:02:43):
They have burnt, so you're looking at one of the
Parker Center guard stations. One of the guard stations.

Speaker 7 (01:02:50):
They have taken it over.

Speaker 80 (01:02:51):
They are breaking the windows.

Speaker 39 (01:02:53):
We are asking people to step.

Speaker 45 (01:02:54):
Out of this area.

Speaker 50 (01:02:56):
Leach officers trying to see you off the street.

Speaker 12 (01:03:00):
A group basically just marching right down the middle of
the street.

Speaker 39 (01:03:04):
It is a multi racial crowd.

Speaker 30 (01:03:05):
It is not up predominantly any color.

Speaker 12 (01:03:08):
There's a fellow who's lighting the trees.

Speaker 7 (01:03:10):
Is he not ye going along block to block somebody stopping?

Speaker 12 (01:03:14):
I mean, one shree after another.

Speaker 26 (01:03:16):
He's birded palms with the dead frond hanging down, grape
fuel for a narcisist.

Speaker 39 (01:04:00):
No, no, some don't don't.

Speaker 23 (01:04:22):
Let's do let me do.

Speaker 63 (01:04:27):
This thought.

Speaker 39 (01:04:28):
Let's go las thoughts, get out what.

Speaker 12 (01:04:40):
I talked from some of the acts a little while ago.

Speaker 7 (01:04:42):
And they really don't want what to do right now.
There are TV cameras all over there, people all over
and I don't think anybody really knows what to do
and how to get this under control.

Speaker 5 (01:05:04):
TV fouris still work Civic Center right term.

Speaker 70 (01:05:06):
At one point two, Stephanie, is that you do you
want to change that the house widespread is the violence
because it'll be hard to talk about. Okay, Well, this evening,
we understand that there are about twenty fires burning, mostly
in south central Los Angeles. This is a predominantly black

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area of the city.

Speaker 12 (01:05:34):
This is a super slot meat location.

Speaker 76 (01:05:36):
Someone actually a group of over one hundred people went
into this location and looted it. And every time they
go in loot, after they're done looting, they set fire
to the structure.

Speaker 39 (01:05:51):
Time before on the.

Speaker 75 (01:05:52):
Black community, he shot let for Hardy, a chunk out
for fort writing Dame Freedomonic great, what you need caught
the video.

Speaker 11 (01:05:59):
Tape don't think edon want to protect yourself?

Speaker 6 (01:06:01):
Far who.

Speaker 76 (01:06:07):
Hearing for the first time tonight from Darryl Gates, who
is holding a news office.

Speaker 35 (01:06:10):
Le's go to in life wis again.

Speaker 18 (01:06:11):
I think most of it's concentrated the south central Los
Angeles area. But problem is you find many locations where
there are no officers and that needs to be corrected,
and we're trying to do that as directly.

Speaker 45 (01:06:22):
We begin.

Speaker 65 (01:06:27):
Reported structure fire for light four sixty four.

Speaker 72 (01:06:30):
And we think it's the pretty heavy black on Adams
about ball park during the early We've got a file.

Speaker 63 (01:06:35):
Through the window there in that area and the bark
up the fire.

Speaker 54 (01:06:41):
So we have a farman yond.

Speaker 79 (01:06:43):
We have a farrement.

Speaker 69 (01:06:43):
John.

Speaker 30 (01:06:43):
We need to help immediate later rogers.

Speaker 27 (01:06:46):
They're dispatching LAPD units along with all fire trucks that
respond to major emergency blazes for a protection.

Speaker 12 (01:07:00):
But with respect to trying to get LAPD service or
anything else, folks, you're on your own down there.

Speaker 81 (01:07:06):
There are fires burning, there are people being beaten, there
is looting.

Speaker 77 (01:07:24):
That is a dangerous night the City of Los Angeles.

Speaker 26 (01:07:47):
I'm advised that there is someone from the Secretary of
State's office on the way over to accept this proclamation
of a state emergency, of a state of emergency for
a Los Angeles.

Speaker 10 (01:07:58):
City and Los Angeles County.

Speaker 26 (01:08:04):
This is in response to requests by Merria Bradley as
a result of the discussions that we have had. There
will be as many as seven hundred and fifty California
Highway Patrolmen. Additionally, we have made available some two thousand
National Guardsmen. They are on standby, prepared to move. Transport

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has been arranged and it is our purpose here at
the state government level to restore law and order and
to minimize the danger to the residents of the area.

Speaker 10 (01:08:39):
This is a matter that needs to be settled in
the courts and not in the streets.

Speaker 3 (01:08:44):
Thank you.

Speaker 39 (01:09:07):
Really want it now?

Speaker 34 (01:09:14):
White House officials were scrambling at this very moment to
produce a statement from President Bush. Nobody expected that verdict
the way it came down.

Speaker 32 (01:09:23):
There's nothing really that the White.

Speaker 34 (01:09:24):
House can do about that verdict, but it does present
a huge political problem. Many civil rights leaders thought that
President Bush has been weak on civil rights civil rights promises.

Speaker 39 (01:09:34):
You had any discussions with.

Speaker 80 (01:09:35):
President Bush, either on the telephone or has there been any?

Speaker 6 (01:09:38):
President Bush does not talk to us.

Speaker 20 (01:09:40):
Let's let's let's let's let's be straight about this. We
have no access to the White House. We had one
meeting since I have been in Congress. What the President
did was performer, It was courtesy, But there is no relationship.

Speaker 82 (01:09:56):
Is that what we thought?

Speaker 12 (01:09:58):
Thanks?

Speaker 34 (01:09:58):
Via Administration officials say that the Justice Department had in
fact launched the civil rights investigation into the Rodney King beating,
but once state charges were brought, they sort of put
that on hold. Now it's unclear at this moment exactly
where that investigation stands faith.

Speaker 15 (01:10:15):
They would almost seem at this point, Jimmy, they have
to pick it up again.

Speaker 54 (01:10:18):
You cannot ignore that all of this is coming in
a presidential election year.

Speaker 14 (01:10:23):
You know that.

Speaker 12 (01:10:23):
I don't think he's done enough that. I think we
have had too much division and too little harmony. I
think there's been too.

Speaker 83 (01:10:30):
Little effort to bring people together across racial lines.

Speaker 12 (01:10:33):
This is a human problem. People in this country don't trust.

Speaker 83 (01:10:37):
Each other and don't trust the system, and the political
system is too often divided people by race, and that
is the urgent task for America today. Our diversity will
either be our undoing or the source of our greatest strength.

Speaker 20 (01:10:53):
I am angry, and I have a right to that anger,
and the people out there have a right to that anger.
We don't want anybody killed. None of us believe in violence,
but there are some angry people in America, and young
black males in my district are feeling at this moment
if they could not get a conviction with the Rodney
King video available to the Jewels, that there can be

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no justice in America.

Speaker 68 (01:11:33):
One O two three kJ i'dlate to hear in Los
Angeles and we're discussing all the violence and the aftermath
and the directions to go as far as this incident
here venture anger, your frustration, your your hard feelings, not
out in the streets, not breaking windows, not looting, not rioting.
But you know, I guess it's some people say just
punch on me, punch on the radio station, talk to
us over the lines. Let's go back to the phone lines,

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and let's see how you feel this morning.

Speaker 30 (01:11:57):
Yeah. I'm very frustrated, you know, because I don't have
no neighborhood no more. This is not the way for
us to vent our frustration.

Speaker 1 (01:12:07):
This is what they expect us to do.

Speaker 28 (01:12:11):
I've been listening to kjlh all my life.

Speaker 5 (01:12:13):
Only have three words for uh, what's happening?

Speaker 40 (01:12:15):
And those are the same rewords that was at her
during the nineteen sixty five riots.

Speaker 68 (01:12:19):
And you're going to say those bad words.

Speaker 40 (01:12:21):
Huh.

Speaker 5 (01:12:21):
Third and baby burn?

Speaker 63 (01:12:22):
Yeah, thank you, Robert.

Speaker 12 (01:12:26):
I thought on TV would come down here and it's
just lazy.

Speaker 58 (01:12:30):
And this is your aunt's store, yes, And was it
a liquor store here or no? This was a ninety
nine cents store, uh huh. And she has another store
on Crinshaw and that one is gone.

Speaker 35 (01:12:42):
It's terrible absolutely terrible lot of you.

Speaker 10 (01:12:46):
But what can you say?

Speaker 12 (01:12:48):
They said it all yesterday.

Speaker 8 (01:12:51):
And this is out come up and this is outcoming this.

Speaker 11 (01:12:59):
There's much of the pasha bangs on the go in
the radio Korea.

Speaker 10 (01:13:04):
We'll use the gogi meda.

Speaker 84 (01:13:07):
Mm hmm, especially jo Ka probably be Quebec parlship am
news sad even a hand kajisda bangs.

Speaker 10 (01:13:22):
Hand keep. I don't bring any other people, any other lace,
any other colors. Just just it happened. It happened the desert.
We're gonna believe again, We're gonna good test do you

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are to keep? Our good intention continues?

Speaker 35 (01:13:48):
And I see we will live here and we we
will live here.

Speaker 7 (01:13:54):
And no, I understand.

Speaker 39 (01:14:03):
The city is still officially under a state of emergency.

Speaker 54 (01:14:06):
The City Council is going to meet and discuss how
to proceed from here.

Speaker 64 (01:14:13):
The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the necessary
action relatively state of emergency in the study of Los Angeles,
declared by the Mayor on April twenty ninth. Okay, mister Holden.

Speaker 5 (01:14:25):
Miss President members, I'm sure you've heard from each of
my colleagues before I arrive, and certainly you've seen them
on TV ask for calm and regretting the tragedy that
took place last night and continuing in our city.

Speaker 10 (01:14:38):
The question is.

Speaker 6 (01:14:40):
How do we stop it?

Speaker 5 (01:14:42):
If we have a pretty good idea, it's likely to occur,
and it will unless we have a presence. But you
got to start deploying right now. I tell you, handwriting
is on the wall.

Speaker 68 (01:14:56):
I can't really tell because we're on the radio and
I can barely see the television. Now, people still lose
this time.

Speaker 10 (01:15:00):
Yes they are. I seen them when I was coming
into work.

Speaker 20 (01:15:03):
They're still going into stores and they're still taking things
and laughing.

Speaker 39 (01:15:08):
Big gang stuff.

Speaker 50 (01:15:09):
Man gangs, going there and find your side, man gangs.

Speaker 78 (01:15:13):
While the looting seems to continue unabated, the mood at
least seems to be very calm.

Speaker 12 (01:15:19):
Today. We get right through that.

Speaker 50 (01:15:22):
It says factory direct sale.

Speaker 38 (01:15:24):
This is the biggest sale they've probably ever seen.

Speaker 12 (01:15:26):
It's like people are louting anything they can get their
hands on.

Speaker 26 (01:15:29):
Here's a guy with a plant, even coming right out
the front window and taking off.

Speaker 12 (01:15:34):
I've been taking picture of that. All this is exciting.
It's wrong, but it's exciting.

Speaker 45 (01:15:38):
But you know something, it's kind of orderly it's kind
of waterly in a way.

Speaker 12 (01:15:44):
I'm telling you, it's a maid. Let me get this
side here.

Speaker 45 (01:15:48):
It's amaze.

Speaker 3 (01:15:49):
Where are the police? Where are all the police that
the Chief Gates said would be ready for this?

Speaker 64 (01:15:55):
Chief Gates, Yes, just to.

Speaker 18 (01:16:01):
Emphasize, our deployment will increase substantially, and we hope that
that will satisfy the need.

Speaker 29 (01:16:11):
Now there are some place now, everyone's running here. The
police are coming to that. There must be two or
three dozen people. They're still coming out of that store
right now. I don't know how many people fit in
that store, but they're all running out because they're the
police finally moving in. The police can't arrest this many people.
They just go running with their merchandise. And the police

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really aren't running after him. They can't run after him.

Speaker 71 (01:16:37):
We just don't have enough people doing so.

Speaker 12 (01:16:39):
As we chase them away, they come right back.

Speaker 85 (01:16:43):
It's my judgment that the overwhelming majority of those who
are engaged in that unlawful activity now are not the
law riding citizens of this community, but those who are
taking advantage of an opportunity.

Speaker 39 (01:16:57):
What are you doing? Are you embarrassed? Don't you know?

Speaker 12 (01:17:00):
This is ill?

Speaker 39 (01:17:01):
Way?

Speaker 18 (01:17:01):
God?

Speaker 39 (01:17:02):
Why did you do this?

Speaker 12 (01:17:03):
I don't know they can hit three? It's free.

Speaker 39 (01:17:06):
Did you know what's wrong?

Speaker 60 (01:17:07):
Na?

Speaker 39 (01:17:08):
You don't care? Goods?

Speaker 45 (01:17:19):
So that goes through.

Speaker 79 (01:17:21):
I'm okay.

Speaker 77 (01:17:27):
Where are the National Guard troops that have been promised?

Speaker 42 (01:17:30):
Why do we not see them?

Speaker 6 (01:17:31):
Bill?

Speaker 32 (01:17:32):
Why hasn't the National Guard been called out?

Speaker 3 (01:17:34):
That's a mystery, Dad.

Speaker 34 (01:17:35):
We have had reports that several hundred are in the
area and we expect to see and hear from them soon.

Speaker 26 (01:17:41):
I understand the idea that they could make things worse,
but then you could say that about the police too.

Speaker 6 (01:17:46):
I mean, how much worse does it need to get?

Speaker 45 (01:18:13):
Because I was lit up.

Speaker 14 (01:18:20):
The go.

Speaker 39 (01:18:28):
Get it done. Just say it's not out, it is born.
Its all this so that I came up to give
my stuff about.

Speaker 16 (01:18:42):
My roll, my.

Speaker 45 (01:18:46):
Like that have tickets.

Speaker 39 (01:18:47):
They have no tickets in down house down you know, upset.

Speaker 23 (01:18:52):
The world?

Speaker 39 (01:18:54):
That thing and.

Speaker 6 (01:18:59):
Your capture.

Speaker 10 (01:19:09):
You don't put a handy the tinging game? Married do
you wanna do that? You go look, Nan, come tell
them running?

Speaker 6 (01:19:22):
You want to matic dom that I go the door? Yeah,
cause I can't go pitch cat and I'm going there?

Speaker 30 (01:19:31):
Are you want to go?

Speaker 6 (01:19:32):
Colle cash mass?

Speaker 10 (01:19:33):
Excuse me.

Speaker 39 (01:19:34):
Can you can take ca away on partment you.

Speaker 10 (01:19:37):
Got you goes on your share Colls go yours?

Speaker 7 (01:19:40):
Yeah, okay called you call your cousin.

Speaker 52 (01:19:47):
Became cons We're going to turn the polising the chickens
and something else.

Speaker 14 (01:19:53):
Ange you go to cob WILLI jer.

Speaker 10 (01:19:57):
Live there too, cabin.

Speaker 2 (01:20:01):
We have a fire that's broken out in Korea, Italia
across Western Avenue.

Speaker 24 (01:20:05):
Has there been any kinds of disturbances in Koreatown.

Speaker 10 (01:20:08):
I think this is the first we've heard about.

Speaker 14 (01:20:10):
This kind of activity.

Speaker 12 (01:20:11):
Yes, that's right, Pat, this is just a rupid.

Speaker 20 (01:20:14):
I don't see any official firefighters, any engines.

Speaker 6 (01:20:17):
Are there any in the area.

Speaker 12 (01:20:18):
No, no firefighters here.

Speaker 10 (01:20:20):
Good Chesney trim.

Speaker 64 (01:20:27):
Cot It Havia so trimbush Bund.

Speaker 62 (01:20:35):
The band Punin hagends how Krome or Coale no get
jo from Johann Publi.

Speaker 46 (01:20:57):
M hm.

Speaker 68 (01:21:06):
They've taken the law into their own hands, positioned themselves
on the roof.

Speaker 12 (01:21:09):
They are also armed with the tlubs. The Koreans here
have prepared to protect themselves.

Speaker 40 (01:21:14):
Against anything that may come their way.

Speaker 12 (01:21:17):
The police didn't come here.

Speaker 39 (01:21:18):
We needed adition and God didn't here.

Speaker 50 (01:21:21):
We have no police support whatsoever.

Speaker 12 (01:21:23):
People are driving by shooting at us, and we have
to do something about it.

Speaker 3 (01:21:26):
Always stressed for war games.

Speaker 12 (01:21:28):
That's right, and it's certainly not a game.

Speaker 79 (01:21:30):
To those people that are on the roof and are
carrying rifles and lots of boxes of ammunition.

Speaker 12 (01:21:34):
Let's frighten them, That's what it was.

Speaker 10 (01:21:36):
Well, catch up.

Speaker 12 (01:21:37):
They're shooting at us. So far we'll be shooting up.

Speaker 10 (01:21:40):
But when it comes to worst, we're not gonna sit
a while shooting up.

Speaker 39 (01:21:43):
So we're gonna shoot at them. As he lived.

Speaker 10 (01:21:48):
Why this is Lindamore Live.

Speaker 43 (01:21:50):
Some of the Korean shop owners here called out.

Speaker 45 (01:21:54):
Of their stores and they start pulling out weapons.

Speaker 39 (01:21:57):
There's some cars that have some points. They're shooting rians
here really a good way.

Speaker 43 (01:22:19):
It seems like someone's been shot where someone's been shot
in their car.

Speaker 19 (01:22:24):
I think I think we should get out of here.

Speaker 39 (01:22:27):
Shot up.

Speaker 10 (01:22:37):
Missus helicopter to a desk.

Speaker 3 (01:22:39):
Helicopter the desk, would you read me?

Speaker 52 (01:22:41):
Okay, I'm man.

Speaker 26 (01:22:44):
I don't know if you've got u s live.

Speaker 12 (01:22:45):
You don't have us live. But if you can see our.

Speaker 10 (01:22:47):
Picture whel and three fires and Hollywood used to take
us as soon as you can.

Speaker 46 (01:22:52):
That fire was one of three fires that had recently
broken out in the Hollywood area.

Speaker 26 (01:22:56):
The other was just east of that, and frankly, uh
up in the air here we can see fires.

Speaker 12 (01:23:02):
Easily beyond the Watson Compton area. Clearly the fires are spreading.

Speaker 10 (01:23:08):
I mean, the whole city is up in the flames.

Speaker 64 (01:23:09):
But now it's kind of high close.

Speaker 22 (01:23:12):
We are getting reports of looting from all over Los
Angeles and also surrounding areas.

Speaker 29 (01:23:16):
It's not confined to South central, not can find in
the city of Los Angeles.

Speaker 12 (01:23:19):
It's all over.

Speaker 68 (01:23:25):
Vernon Convalescent Hospital, a fire over the somebody sent a
fire in the convalescent hosse. The fire department, the police department,
and everybody else is trying to help scatter it all
over the city. So the fires are burning out of control.

Speaker 86 (01:23:39):
Yeah, alright, the store bikes, they don't get the body out.

Speaker 39 (01:24:16):
Don't go into the way.

Speaker 52 (01:24:18):
Oh get out, Oh how you?

Speaker 39 (01:24:21):
Oh yeah, it's a medical get out.

Speaker 40 (01:24:24):
I look on from the butt.

Speaker 39 (01:24:26):
No, I don't. I'm gonna lie. I tell you, I
love you. I don't set over again. You're not the
right chicken A mouse shut. I'm gonna do the finger.

Speaker 30 (01:24:35):
It's America, America.

Speaker 52 (01:24:36):
I'm gonna till the as my Americon bigger get out.

Speaker 14 (01:24:41):
You know.

Speaker 69 (01:24:44):
This is a plantig.

Speaker 23 (01:24:53):
The will don't go, the wheel will.

Speaker 43 (01:25:00):
Twenty one people confirmed dead at this time, at least
five hundred and seventy two injured and pople two firefighters.

Speaker 10 (01:25:07):
This number is staggering.

Speaker 77 (01:25:08):
I don't know exactly how to tell you this, but
nine hundred and sixteen structure fires are burning in the
Los Angeles area.

Speaker 10 (01:25:15):
Nine hundred and sixteen. Definitely we're a mess.

Speaker 12 (01:25:29):
It looks like.

Speaker 10 (01:25:32):
There's people down there with automatic weos.

Speaker 68 (01:25:35):
Flank Town, three in.

Speaker 40 (01:25:37):
Town, mid Wilshire, Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Clover City on the right.

Speaker 10 (01:25:43):
People are going crazy down that.

Speaker 7 (01:25:45):
It's like they're feeling so oppressed and then they're.

Speaker 45 (01:25:48):
Going to go and burn everything.

Speaker 39 (01:25:49):
Now they're going to be more oppressed.

Speaker 79 (01:25:51):
Well, there's shit going on with people other than you know,
a black being, you know what I mean. I mean,
you got some people that work sixty to eighty hours
a week and still have bill collectors calling, and they
see their bosses fill out in these merks and these
roses every day and struck him on the back and

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tell him it's gonna be all right. You know how
long can that last?

Speaker 71 (01:26:16):
That she's not right work, I don't even understand nothing.

Speaker 39 (01:26:22):
Come on, if she's not right, that she's not rights,
not right?

Speaker 12 (01:26:28):
What y'all do?

Speaker 45 (01:26:29):
Like I take from the httle too, even all of
you get.

Speaker 39 (01:26:38):
Y'all need a lesson.

Speaker 45 (01:26:39):
I y'all, y'all, don't you call it brag.

Speaker 39 (01:26:46):
About you?

Speaker 57 (01:26:47):
Mad?

Speaker 39 (01:26:47):
Why?

Speaker 72 (01:26:48):
Why is drawing?

Speaker 45 (01:26:51):
Why is drawing about.

Speaker 60 (01:26:54):
What?

Speaker 45 (01:26:55):
The computer? I'm trying to make it to scout, you
understand they take out fit. I'll try, no ferget, don't do.

Speaker 39 (01:27:40):
If you want.

Speaker 68 (01:27:42):
The can't under stand fast.

Speaker 12 (01:27:45):
You got going to do?

Speaker 41 (01:27:47):
You can do that much, Puka.

Speaker 19 (01:27:50):
You can do so you can change others to do.

Speaker 6 (01:27:54):
Stand into the.

Speaker 55 (01:27:54):
Top fire.

Speaker 39 (01:27:57):
On the Monday. Only watching yes nothing, yes day? You
mean watching? What are you watching?

Speaker 53 (01:28:09):
Trying?

Speaker 68 (01:28:10):
Only watching?

Speaker 39 (01:28:16):
This is tough. This is not bad, This is not fair.
This is not bad. It is that that's not bad.
Like this, that's not bad. That's not bad.

Speaker 69 (01:28:32):
But that is not bad.

Speaker 39 (01:28:35):
That not bad. This is not bad. This is not bad.

Speaker 52 (01:28:42):
That's not bad.

Speaker 10 (01:29:29):
No A.

Speaker 28 (01:30:35):
The California Army National Guard has been deployed to assist
the Insurance Department and Los Angeles Police Department in a
mutual aid operation to restore law and order and to
protect life and property in the Los Angeles County.

Speaker 71 (01:31:03):
Pretty frustrated today by the current weapons of the LA
officials to use the Guard on the street.

Speaker 10 (01:31:09):
Dan, I don't think there was reluctance.

Speaker 26 (01:31:11):
I think that there was some delay for logistical reasons,
reasons that had to do with equipping the guard.

Speaker 3 (01:31:20):
Problems and equipping the guard.

Speaker 26 (01:31:22):
The chief problem has been with respect to ammunition.

Speaker 45 (01:31:26):
Can you finish that?

Speaker 3 (01:31:27):
What's the problem with ammunition?

Speaker 7 (01:31:30):
The troops came, but the ammunition didn't.

Speaker 26 (01:31:32):
They came with some ammunition, not the full compliment that
they should have. The problem was that it was slow
in coming from Camp Roberts.

Speaker 12 (01:31:48):
Gonna start out from where we are right now.

Speaker 27 (01:31:49):
We're gonna head to eighty one's position, at Akilo's position,
the weapons CuPy position.

Speaker 12 (01:31:53):
We're gonna come up like that.

Speaker 10 (01:31:56):
Shut up.

Speaker 6 (01:31:58):
Really, I.

Speaker 7 (01:32:09):
Didn't expect to be in us soil doing this job ever.

Speaker 60 (01:32:13):
Ever.

Speaker 40 (01:32:14):
Tell everyone down there getting the corner or something, are
we locking load locking a little round the chamber?

Speaker 64 (01:32:19):
Never thought it would be done, not in your own country.

Speaker 1 (01:32:22):
It's amazing.

Speaker 12 (01:32:24):
You've got to know who.

Speaker 68 (01:32:27):
You're looking at and who you're thinking about whereas in
the Gulf it was a lot easier.

Speaker 39 (01:32:32):
You knew, Hey, take a corner.

Speaker 45 (01:32:36):
When you stay down, you see it if you take rounds,
take it.

Speaker 73 (01:32:40):
Up, go home, get back home, go get.

Speaker 12 (01:32:46):
Off the streets, leave the area.

Speaker 50 (01:32:48):
These are the police lapd going up and down Pico
telling resident the coup you is in effect.

Speaker 39 (01:32:54):
Now get off the streets, get off the street.

Speaker 70 (01:32:57):
Subject to arrest, leave the area.

Speaker 63 (01:33:12):
Los Angeles City just don't reports the Los Angeles County
First Support that is now in the form or poor
Station Los Angeles and the rest Care company is one
in twelve please or seven second or response enters to satboy,
They Orlington out there at West fifty fourth.

Speaker 3 (01:33:27):
Street Command Center.

Speaker 63 (01:33:29):
Is it the escalation of the situation as a serious
of the potent centcry because you live an extended to
locally the antario Los Angeles City limits.

Speaker 12 (01:33:47):
RAM three RAM one O.

Speaker 79 (01:33:52):
RAM three is RAM one over.

Speaker 12 (01:33:56):
RAM three out. Yeah, they gonna turn on sprinklers out
here so to keep it wet down, to.

Speaker 5 (01:34:04):
Be careful for you guys. Gonna get wet up alright.

Speaker 16 (01:34:07):
Uh the water pressure if they need it over here
on these uh houses, we'll turn it off and I
I don't think it's gonna make that big a difference.

Speaker 79 (01:34:13):
What I'm trying to do is avoid as sparks.

Speaker 39 (01:34:18):
How do you like that? Or is it some friend popes?
Do you get those statius walk?

Speaker 7 (01:34:33):
What can.

Speaker 39 (01:34:38):
The work right?

Speaker 42 (01:34:39):
Be?

Speaker 87 (01:34:39):
You a bar?

Speaker 14 (01:34:40):
Here?

Speaker 7 (01:34:41):
You did?

Speaker 23 (01:34:42):
Do you think you.

Speaker 10 (01:35:02):
M r?

Speaker 5 (01:36:09):
How you doing?

Speaker 52 (01:36:24):
I know people got injured because of the loudo and
there were police across the street watching it.

Speaker 7 (01:36:31):
There was nothing they could do.

Speaker 12 (01:36:32):
It was already out of hand. There were too many
people just going crazy, stepping all over each other.

Speaker 10 (01:36:38):
And I know one thing a hungry as I am now.

Speaker 8 (01:36:44):
It still ain't.

Speaker 26 (01:36:45):
I think that's the question that what.

Speaker 47 (01:36:47):
Was gonna end and people were gonna get hungry, that
we're gonna look around and say where do we go?

Speaker 10 (01:36:51):
Now?

Speaker 12 (01:36:52):
Well, I guess that's why we're here.

Speaker 35 (01:36:54):
Yeah, that's why we're here talking.

Speaker 12 (01:36:57):
We're watching it.

Speaker 86 (01:36:58):
Though the newspapers from other big cities of warning their
reaction to the British mail.

Speaker 10 (01:37:04):
Dead Brothers standing in the Saviors about it.

Speaker 16 (01:37:08):
Racism in the United States of America is as American
as apple.

Speaker 36 (01:37:11):
Kyle Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley and police officials said
today that they're regaining control over the city.

Speaker 42 (01:37:27):
Police Chief Darrel Gates admitted that the police force got
a slow start Wednesday afternoon when the violence began, and
Gates and fire Chief Donald Manning conceded that the city's
forces were overwhelmed. Firefighters don bulletproof vests as they fought
the scores of new fires that were set last night.
There were still about forty fires burning early this morning.

Speaker 36 (01:37:59):
At least thirty five people are now said to have
lost their lives. More than thirteen hundred people have been
injured and three thousand arrested. The city remains under a
dusk to dawn curfew, with many stores and malls closed.

Speaker 39 (01:38:31):
Okay, the ESSI checks are petty and what's gonna happen?
And they're probably gonnat some of the people s SI
a checks game at first. But we need a proporation here.

Speaker 87 (01:38:48):
You make sure that every fdy get their bill two days.

Speaker 39 (01:39:05):
Okay, I want you to collaborate with me.

Speaker 63 (01:39:09):
So if we can do it.

Speaker 39 (01:39:11):
And we started a big fat right outside here. So
we said they gonna call these doors and the qushun
beyond both front sofy can work with me. So start here.
The Ryan and the bomb. Somebody plays when you work
with me.

Speaker 77 (01:40:20):
Good afternoon, everyone, I'm Ross Becker here in the Channel
thirteen newsroom. We are interrupting programming this afternoon. Momentarily we
expect to hear a statement from someone whose name will
be indelibly connected to all of the violence we have
seen over the last couple of days in Los Angeles,
and that is Rodney King.

Speaker 78 (01:40:38):
And we're standing by. It's been great anticipation, certainly. Mister
King has not made public statements. He has been really
the invisible man and all this and I detect some
movement through the crowd. Yep, I see here he comes.

Speaker 7 (01:41:05):
Down.

Speaker 1 (01:41:07):
Hey, damn.

Speaker 12 (01:41:09):
When I have work for.

Speaker 38 (01:41:22):
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank you all
for coming.

Speaker 12 (01:41:28):
Rodney King.

Speaker 39 (01:41:30):
Has this to say to all the people of Los
Angeles and all the people of the cities of the
United States.

Speaker 12 (01:41:36):
I'm so caught up in there's horror, and hey.

Speaker 39 (01:41:41):
The killing, the burning, the looting, the chaos must stop.

Speaker 31 (01:41:46):
Now.

Speaker 12 (01:41:48):
The time for healing is upon us. Rodney King has
prepared a very brief statement. NY love stuff.

Speaker 40 (01:42:03):
Uh people, I J I just I just wanna say,
you know, can we can we all get along? Can
we can we get along. Can we stop making it
making it.

Speaker 12 (01:42:18):
Horrible for for the for the older people, and the
and the and the kids.

Speaker 15 (01:42:24):
Oh and.

Speaker 40 (01:42:27):
I mean we've got enough small here in Los Angeles,
let alone to uh D deal with the setting these
fires and and things. It's it's just not right. It's
not right, and it's not it's not gonna it's not
gonna change anything. We've gotta we've gotta quit. We've got

(01:42:52):
to quit, you know, after all. I mean, I can
understand the the the first upset for the first two
hours after the verdict, but uh to go on to
keep going on like like this and to see the
security guard shot on the on the ground, it it's

(01:43:13):
it's it's just not right. It's just not right because
those people are will never go home to their families again.
And uh, I mean, please, we can we can get
along here. We we all can get along. We just
gotta just gotta you know, I mean, we're all stuck
here for a while. Let's you know, let's let's let's

(01:43:36):
try to work it out. Let's try to beat it,
you know, just let's try and work it out.

Speaker 55 (01:43:42):
Thank you, Steve, you ask that y'all go ahead you asked, No, no,
go ahead, Thank you very much, Steven, Steve and I
don't be available if you have any questions, okay.

Speaker 15 (01:43:53):
You ten seconds.

Speaker 10 (01:44:30):
Toodnight tonight, n H tonight.

Speaker 24 (01:44:42):
I want to talk to you about violence in our
cities and justice for our citizens. What we saw last
night and the night before in Los Angeles is not
about civil rights. It's not a message of protest. It's
been the brutality of a mob and simple and let
me assure you I will use whatever force is necessary

(01:45:07):
to restore order. Within one hour of the verdict, I
directed the Justice Department to move into high gear on
its own independent criminal investigation into the case. You must
understand that our system of justice provides for the peaceful,
orderly means of addressing this frustration. We must respect the

(01:45:30):
process of law, whether or not we agree with the outcome.
In a civilized society, there can be no excuse, no
excuse for the murder, arson, theft, and vandalism that have
terrorized the law abiding citizens of Los Angeles.

Speaker 10 (01:45:49):
None of this is what we wish to think of
as American.

Speaker 24 (01:45:53):
It's as if we were looking in a mirror that
distorted our better selves and turned us ugly.

Speaker 10 (01:46:00):
We cannot let that happen. We cannot do that to ourselves.

Speaker 24 (01:46:06):
If we are to remain the most vibrant and hopeful
nation on earth, we must allow our diversity to bring
us together, not drive us apart. The violence will end,
justice will be served, hope will return. Thank you, and
may God bless the United States of America.

Speaker 30 (01:46:30):
President George Bush and is addressed to the nation from
the Oval Office.

Speaker 16 (01:46:34):
Time for your reactions once again from around the country
for Washington, Maryland here.

Speaker 10 (01:46:38):
On the air.

Speaker 30 (01:46:39):
First of all, mister Bush spoke with the last forty
eight hours, and this is the first time he's noticed
that America has a problem. It's always had a problem
from its inception, from seventeen seventy six when they said
all men were created equal and we had slavery.

Speaker 1 (01:46:53):
It was striking to me that there was no direct
statement to the African American population, and there was completely
seeing any sense of a reality about how a national
leader might move people towards reconciliation.

Speaker 67 (01:47:08):
People have to see that they're going to have to
make their voices heard if they allow when they hear
a politician to try to explain this away as being
thugs and murderers. Things will not change. This is going
to be a people movement. People can move politicians. The
community leads, they don't follow. Politicians follow, they don't lead.

Speaker 12 (01:47:28):
And that's what we have to remember.

Speaker 6 (01:47:40):
Mamo Latino.

Speaker 40 (01:47:45):
Do that.

Speaker 1 (01:47:48):
It's just one day.

Speaker 5 (01:47:49):
It lets you that.

Speaker 20 (01:47:59):
Yeah, it's important to see the full scope, the burning,
the looting and the cleaning up.

Speaker 39 (01:48:04):
A personal opinion is just that, you know.

Speaker 61 (01:48:06):
Everybody needs to work together and if this could just continue,
it would be wonderful.

Speaker 52 (01:48:11):
But you know, I don't think it will.

Speaker 20 (01:48:13):
I think you know, a few people say, Okay, I
put in my time, I helped clean and then I
couldn't do anything.

Speaker 50 (01:48:19):
Go prove me wrong, you know, Oh God, prove you wrong.

Speaker 39 (01:48:22):
You know we had enough, that's right, agreed.

Speaker 72 (01:48:30):
I was driving down Western below Wilshire and I looked
at the left and saw a z of people. These
are Korean Americans and gathered today to call for peace.

Speaker 6 (01:48:40):
This is on the city.

Speaker 3 (01:48:41):
Then we must stop destroying.

Speaker 82 (01:48:43):
All our hands to spend united to stop and see
the senseless violence and destruction.

Speaker 72 (01:48:50):
Most of them are wearing white headbands. They say that
is a symbol of peace. The one sign of it
stood out in my mind the most was a sign
that said, we know it was injustice. We know it
was injustice.

Speaker 82 (01:49:04):
We stand together and from the injustice in the Kings
West police abuse, it is.

Speaker 7 (01:49:14):
What what?

Speaker 39 (01:49:20):
What are you?

Speaker 42 (01:49:22):
What?

Speaker 30 (01:49:27):
In our history?

Speaker 52 (01:49:28):
The only power I believe that the power poor people having,
powerless people have in this country comes from our unruly behavior,
our resistance to an order that would place us at
the bottom of the tourtein point.

Speaker 7 (01:50:05):
This is where it began. This is where the fuse
was lighted. It began with the arrest by white officers
of the California Highway Patrol of two young negroes, one
on a charge of drunk driving. There was an argument,
there was a scuffle, and the story of police brutality
quickly spread through the community. Up the street of block
or so in that direction, a church where a Negro
leader is pleaded for peace and were rejected. In that way,

(01:50:28):
the busy intersection where cars were overturned and burned, where
other cars were stone where a television technician was pulled
from his wagon and almost beaten to death.

Speaker 42 (01:50:37):
What has changed.

Speaker 9 (01:50:38):
The only thing that was done was that massive forces
were brought in to suppress the actual overt action.

Speaker 1 (01:50:44):
The incident is not an isolated incident.

Speaker 39 (01:50:47):
The difference this time is that we have the proof.

Speaker 75 (01:51:01):
And were talking about talking about we get as I'm
not talking.

Speaker 10 (01:51:05):
About in a civilized society.

Speaker 19 (01:51:13):
There can be no excuse for the murder, pillage, looting,
and arson have nothing to do with civil rights.

Speaker 48 (01:51:20):
Get out of the car, nigger, assume the position, nigger
sit und the curve, nigger based on the world bigger?
Why shit not we get rest.

Speaker 12 (01:51:30):
I don't think it ever stopped.

Speaker 35 (01:51:32):
Really, I mean there may not be like this, but
till I'll never stopped.

Speaker 7 (01:51:56):
A crisis in our country, says the McCom commission. Shows
ship areas and explosive is the situation that, unless it
is checked, the August riots may be only a curtain
raiser to what could blow up one day in the future.
What shall it avail our nation if we can place
a man on the moon but cannot cure the sickness
in our cities. This is built out for CBS reports

(01:52:20):
in Los Angeles.

Speaker 3 (01:52:22):
Good Night, a

Speaker 23 (01:53:37):
Man com

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