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Sunday, September 12, 2010

This 1991 amateur video captured the beating of Rodney King

I chose this picture of an amateur video taken of the police brutality that occurred on March 3, 1991. On that day, Rodney King, an African-American citizen of Los Angeles, was brutally beaten to a near-death state by several Caucasian police officers. This pictures shows the detrimental state that society falls into when conflicting groups can not coexist. Violent acts toward the minority, and even the majority, causing larger problems, such as riots (which happened post-Rodney King beating).

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