Amy Poehler directs and co-stars in "Moxie," a comedic drama about high school females rising up against sexism.Advocates who lived through the riots are now fighting to defund the police and dismantle unions that thwart accountability A woman walks by the 1992 mural Freedom Won’t Wait by Noni Olabisi in Los Angeles, created after the beating of Rodney King.
is still corrupt and violent and brutal,” said Melina Abdullah, co-founder of Black Lives Matter LA. “Since Rodney King, officers brutally kicked and beat him on the pavement. The officers struck King 56 times with their batons as he lay face down. Videotape of the incident shot from a nearby apartment. Photograph: George Holliday “It was like being raped, stripped of everything, being beaten near to death there on the concrete,” King recalled in an interview with the Guardian in 2012, a month before his death. “I just knew how it felt to be a slave.
officers stop and search Black and Latino residents at significantly higher rates than white residents. In the last two years, officers have been accused of falsely labeling civilians as gang members in databases, citing fabricated information. Last year, the LA Times found that the police department appeared to have repeatedly violated its own rules when it used force against protesters, in some cases causing significant injury.
had become more racially diverse, she said, she felt “they still don’t have a regard for human life”. Last year, an
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