CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
April 30, 1993
On April 17, a federal jury convicted two of four Los Angeles Police Department officers charged with violating the civil rights of motorist Rodney G. King. The guilty verdicts came nearly one year after the officers' acquittals in state court sparked the deadliest rioting to hit the United States in this century. Police and community leaders are now left to ponder the verdicts' implications for law enforcement. What message should police take from the verdict in the Rodney G.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
April 25, 1993 | DANA PARSONS
Controlling the action. Those are the words that stuck most in my mind after the second Rodney King verdict, because they seemed the most incredible of any spoken at either of the two trials. Yet, that was the phrase that Sgt. Stacey Koon used to justify the police beating of King. Most incredibly of all, the Simi Valley jurors bought it.
NEWS
May 27, 1992 | MICHELE FUETSCH, TIMES STAFF WRITER
They are immigrants from different parts of the globe. They did not know one another before the incident. They have not met since. A Korean and an Israeli, two people who just happened to be together at the precise moment when American rage, home-grown and blind to anything but skin color, exploded the afternoon of April 29. Sammy Botach said he went back last week looking for Joung Hi Kwon.
ENTERTAINMENT
May 11, 1992 | BETH KLEID, Arts and entertainment reports from The Times, national and international news services and the nation's press
For the Kids: KCET has produced six 30-second spots in which children's host Shari Lewis tells parents to talk to their children about the rioting that followed the Rodney King verdict. The spots are airing nationwide on PBS.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
May 10, 1992
I just had to explain my tears to my innocent 7-year-old son. The Rodney King verdict blared across the airwaves, sending cold chills down my spine. I had to explain to him that skin color doesn't make a difference in who a person is. I had to explain to him that the job of a policeman was to protect people, while living within the same laws. I had to explain to him the concept of a trial and to define the word travesty . I had to explain to him why anger at the verdict was violently spilling into the streets of Los Angeles.