Sublime - April 29, 1992 (Rodney Glen King(DOB.2-4-1965) riots) HEY RAM !Judges and Prosecutors !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots
The 1992 Los Angeles Riots, also known as the 1992 Los Angeles Civil Unrest and Rodney King Uprising, were sparked on April 29, 1992, when a jury acquitted four Los Angeles Police Department officers accused in the videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King following a high-speed pursuit.
The officers later testified that they believed King was under the influence of the dissociative drug phencyclidine (PCP),although King's toxicology results tested negative for PCP.

Thousands of people in the Los Angeles area rioted over the six days following the verdict. At that time, similar, smaller riots and anti-police actions took place in other locations in the United States and Canada. Widespread looting, assault, arson and murder occurred, and property damages topped roughly US$1 billion. In all, 53 people died during the riots and thousands more were injured.
A curfew and deployment of the National Guard began to control the situation; eventually U.S. Army soldiers and United States Marines were ordered to the city to quell disorder as well.
Fifty-three people died during the riots with as many as 2,000 people injured. Estimates of the material losses vary between about $800 million and $1 billion. Approximately 3,600 fires were set, destroying 1,100 buildings, with fire calls coming once every minute at some points; widespread looting also occurred. Stores owned by Korean and other Asian immigrants were widely targeted, although stores owned by Caucasians and African Americans were targeted by rioters as well.
Many of the disturbances were concentrated in South Central Los Angeles, which was primarily composed of African American and Hispanic residents.
During the riots many Koreans from throughout the area rushed to Koreatown, heeding a call put out on Korean-language radio stations for volunteer security guards. Two of the most iconic and controversial television images of the violence was a scene of two Korean merchants firing pistols repeatedly from a military stance, and Korean guards firing AR15s from store rooftops. There was a lot of activity to protect the Korean businesses, especially in Koreatown. Many Koreans had weapons; including but not limited to: shotguns, AR15s, AK-47s and Uzis.
Democratic presidential candidate, Bill Clinton, argued likewise that the violence resulted from the breakdown of economic opportunities and social institutions in the inner city.
However, he maintained that the King verdicts could not be avenged by the "savage behavior" of "lawless vandals". He also stated that people "are looting because ... [t]hey do not share our values, and their children are growing up in a culture alien from ours, without family, without neighborhood, without church, without support."
Conversely, President Bush argued that the unrest was "purely criminal". Though he acknowledged that the King verdicts were plainly unjust, he maintained that "we simply cannot condone violence as a way of changing the system ... Mob brutality, the total loss of respect for human life was sickeningly sad ... What we saw last night and the night before in Los Angeles is not about civil rights. It's not about the great cause of equality that all Americans must uphold.
Susan Clemmer, an officer who gave crucial testimony for the defense at the initial trial, committed suicide in July 2009 in the lobby of a Los Angeles Sheriff's Station. She rode in the ambulance with King and testified that he was laughing and spat blood on her uniform. She had remained in law enforcement and was a Sheriff's Detective at the time of her death.

The Korean-American community in Los Angeles refers to the event as "Sa-I-Gu" (literally 4-29, the first day the riots broke out). The riots prompted various responses from the Korean-American community, including the formation of activist organizations such as the Association of Korean American Victims, and increased efforts to build collaborative links with other ethnic groups.
The Long Beach based band, Sublime wrote a song about the riots entitled April 29, 1992 (Miami).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King

King was born in Sacramento, California to Odessa King, a Jehovah's Witness who has four other children.

Whether it's speaking for those battling Multiple Sclerosis, or alcoholism, King wants to be of service. "Our time here on Earth is so short," he said. "Whatever we become in the next life is from what we did here on Earth." He said a great way to make an impact is through simple acts of kindness. "It's no more than shaking a hand, saying hi to a person you probably would've never spoke to."

"I'm happy to have made it through it, shoot, I'm going to tell you," King said with a laugh and big smile. "It take a minute to lose it all -- life goes so fast. Maybe I'll sing about it one day."

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[azrial4421]

Darth vader

[DougRayside1]

thanks for an awesome video, brings back memories :)

[dan2hamilton]

great vid man!!!!!

it is sad that this had to happen and it seems to me like this time in history has been forgotten.