Rodney King, whose name was one synonymous with police brutality, has no lasting testament in L.A.’s vast landscape that marks his memory. Now Lora King, his daughter, is working to change that. More from AngelJennings:
By giving to other children what her father gave her, Lora King hopes to keep her dad’s memory alive. “Who knows if they will ever acknowledge him in the way that they should,” she said. “He really didn’t care for that. He just cared about making a difference in people’s lives and creating change.”Lora King speaks to a group of young people who have had their own run-ins with police at a 2016 meeting of the Los Angeles Conservation Corps.
“It’s going to make the kids look at their dads as hero,” said Edna De Leon, educational director of Red Eye Inc., which operates the Watts Empowerment Center, an organization Lora King asked to help her find the first award recipient. The grainy footage exposed the mistreatment that black people had long suffered at the hands of police — decades before the era of Black Lives Matter, when victims of police violence became hashtags and cellphones captured viral videos of police shootings of unarmed black men.
Four policemen — Sgt. Stacey C. Koon and officers Timothy E. Wind, Laurence M. Powell and Theodore J. Briseno — faced trial for the beating. A jury with no black people on it acquitted all of them April 29, 1992. AngryAdvertisement Over the years, his famous words have been twisted by pop culture and contorted into a punchline that he never said: “Can’t we all just get along?”
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