are you able to forgive those cops? have you let those demons go? did you hang onto the money or did you throw it away? can we can we all get along? can we get along? march 3rd, 1991, 25-year-old rodney king is thrust from obscurity to a national symbol of police brutality. the brutal beating that took place here along foothill boulevard in los angeles, california, would reverberate across the country. a city in flames. entire neighborhoods burned to the ground. now, two decades later, what s it like to be the man whose beating seen around the world ignited one of the worst race riots in u.s. history? rodney king usually begins his day on a skateboard. the exercise, he says, keeps his muscles from stiffening. one side effect from all his injuries. skateboarding also brings him peace from the haunting past and demons he s battled the last 20 years. do you still have nightmares? yeah. i do. what s a nightmare? do you wake up? tossing and turning and sometime
rodney king. what do you think when you see it? stay alive. i knew i had to no threat. this was a lynching on video. we the jury in the above entitled action find the defendant i think the verdicts lit a match. the tinder was already in place, very dry. are you able to forgive those cops? have you let those demons go? did you hang onto the money or did you throw it away? can we can we all get along? can we get along? march 3rd, 1991, 25-year-old rodney king is thrust from obscurity to a national symbol of police brutality. the brutal beating that took place here along foothill boulevard in los angeles, california, would reverberate across the country. a city in flames. entire neighborhoods burned to the ground. now, two decades later, what s it like to be the man whose beating seen around the world ignited one of the worst race riots in u.s. history? rodney king usually begins his day on a skateboard. the exercise, he says, keeps his muscles from stiffen
outfront tonight. backed into a corner. [ cat meows ] it s an awful noise, whenever you hear it. republicans are the cats today. that s the sign of the republicans hissing like an angry cat cornered by the neighborhood dog. why? the president s order. allowing eviden ining immigrant age of 30 to stay in this country with two year work visas. those workers can be renewed unlimited times. this is a temporary stop-gap measure that lets s us focus ou resources wisely while giving a degree of relief and hope to talented, driven patriotic young people. it is the it is the right thing to do. but does it add up? yes. resoundingly so. that is when it comes to politics. the order effects 1.4 million immigrants. or about 12% of the illegal immigrants in this country. that s according to the pew center. but there is one person it affects more than anyone else. and that person is the president of the united states. the national association of latino officials estimates that 12 mil
rebirth of detroit would look like. we have two detroiters with us on the line from that great city on satellite here. james, you told me during the break, i didn t even know this! your family is from detroit? it s true. we are one of those grains of sand in that bar graph you showed. we left in 1984 for economic reasons, not reasons of race. but, you know, i have to say i like the civic innovation we are talking about and i don t think that looking at things like hud dollars or more federal dollars is a gold mine is going to be the right way for detroit. but the question i have we see the ads and slickly produced and they can lure you in with this idea that the renaissance is real, courtesy of our tax dollars. but there is honestly something creepy to me about sort of being sucked in by the nicely packaged media presentation. chrysler has been bailed out before. it s not just the economic crisis. a systemic problem in detroit and when you look at the way governance has been so big a