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He is a civil rights attorney who was co-counsel in the Rodney King case.
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Since the Rodney King case, civilian oversight has increased substantially all over the country.
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Smith's works include her take on the Rodney King case and a healthcare show entitled Let Me Down Easy.
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The Los Angeles Police Department itself was forced to change in the wake of the Rodney King case, which highlighted widespread racism in the largely white, male force.
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Long before the uprisings on the streets of Ferguson or Baltimore, the 1992 L.A. riots in the wake of the first verdict in the Rodney King case had an undeniable effect on the city's urban youth.
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He references Gates, the former chief of the department during the Rodney King beating case, and Fuhrman, a detective who called O.
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The well-known case of Rodney King vs. the LAPD is a classic example.
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In the document, which announced his planned rampage, Dorner said nothing had changed in the LAPD since its scandals of the 1990s, the Rodney King beating and the Rampart police corruption case.
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In a manifesto announcing his planned rampage, Dorner said nothing had changed in the LAPD since its scandals of the 1990s, the Rodney King beating and the Rampart police corruption case.
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Eventually some particularly egregious case, such as the beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles, causes a public outcry.
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