'We ain't going to keep sitting back and accepting this.' Four police officers were acquitted in the beating of Rodney King in 1992—shocking the city and angering residents. The full 'Let It Fall' encore airs Tuesday at 8|7c on ABC.
"Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992" is a documentary film looking back 25 years at what transpired before and after the Rodney King verdict.John Ridley"Let It Fall" takes an unflinching look at the 1992 Los Angeles uprising, tracing its roots back a decade and unfolding its history as a series of very personal decisions and very public failures.
Williams was eventually sentenced to a maximum 10 years in prison for the attack on Denny and four other people. He was released after four years, and went back to prison in 2003 for his role in a murder unrelated to the 1992 social unrest. Reginald Denny, to see face-to-face, I would talk to him and I would let him know how I feel from my heart. But, we must understand that I must speak to the person about how I feel and what I think now. The thing is, he is the one that suffered, his family suffered, for what took place over there.
In an interview for the documentary"Let It Fall,” Phillips shared her memories from 1992, and discussed her personal journey and experiences as a female officer. Below are excerpts.My best memory is—“AWD in progress. 51st and Normandie. Asian women being beaten to death in her car or assaulted in her car by a mob of 20 people.” Something like that. The call came out and it sort of hung there in the air with all the other calls. And we just said, 'Man, we can't-- we gotta go.
There was, like, 20 guys. And they scattered. Except one guy… One guy was leaning in the driver side and he had this woman by the collar. And he was beating the sh-t out of her. Punch-- punching her. They spoke emotionally about race, the police, and the uprising in the documentary"Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992."was Juror No. 8 in the controversial and highly-publicized state trial against four white police officers charged in the beating of Rodney King.
I think there's a lot of people that are, of mixed race. And, I think by me coming out and, you know, talkin' about my background, my family, maybe it'll just touch somebody else. To know they're not alone. In memory of the losses suffered in 1992, Korean-Americans call the unrest"Sa-I-Gu," or 4-2-9 in native pronunciation. It is remembered by many Korean-Americans as an awakening to their minority status, a time they felt abandoned by the government and unfairly portrayed by the media as aggressors despite inadequate law enforcement protection.
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