Rodney King Beating

At the beginning of the year one of the major moments in American history that we looked at was the beating of  Rodney King an African American male who was nearly beat to death by several police officers. What had made this stand out in particular was that this was the first time that they had actually video footage of police brutality and the police treating people wrong. Throughout this, with all that had happened, none of those officers were even convicted of any charges or anything. In the black community of LA this did not set well and made them wonder how something this big could happen and nothing happen to the officers that were involved. As a result, this had let to the LA riots which was just whole who minority group in LA saying that they had enough of this discrimination  with the police and that they were just going to let this keep happening. Stores, malls and all those sorts just got ran through and people started to just loose it and there was nothing that the police could do about it. I think that this case would probably stand out with me the most just because of how my parents were growing up around that time and how the stories that they experienced and what was going on in America around that time.