All. A gunman is holding more than 30 hostages at a high school. Eight people have been shot, including at least four students. We can only make an appeal to the gunman. Stop. Theres been enough already. An all white jury acquitted four White Police Officers of assault in the videotaped beating of black motorist rodney king. I was scared. I was scared for my life. Across the nation, people were paying attention to this. The officers struck him with batons between 53 and 56 times. It was one of the first cases where there was actual video of a case of alleged Police Brutality. For 13 months, the city of los angeles has been a pressure cooker, building up to the rodney king trial. We, the jury, in the above entitled action find the
from the intersex intersection. And they said, dont go down there. Dont go down there. And they said to dana, whos very blond, very white, dont go down there, and thats the worse thing you can say to a journalist is dont go down there. She turns around. Shes b
Than 30 hostages at a high school. We can only make an appeal to the gunman, stop, theres been enough already. Across the nation, people were paying attention to this. The officers struck him with batons between 56 and 66 times. For 13 months, los angeles has been a pressure cooker. We find the defendant
while the nations eyes are glued to los angeles. Police have been called to a bizarre crime scene. Fbi agents have joined the search for a missing new jersey executive, sidney risso, if the president of Exxon Corporation is missing from his home. His wife said he left home early that morning, later that evening his car was left idling in the driveway of their home. They had followed their routine, they had breakfast together and she walked him to the door and said goodbye as she always did around 7 30. Miss his car never got to the end of the driveway, and there was no sign of him, the guy had just gone poof. Friends say riso is just like the house they live in, solid. If youre a cynic
serving life without parole. ongoing telephone conversations between the hostage taker identified as eric houston and negotiators. they say he appears to be getting calmer and quieter. eight hours into the siege in california, eric houston is negotiating with the police. i think we did start to feel a little bit hopeful seeing him be more willing to let people go. you could see that he was a little bit more mellowed, a little bit more calm. there was a lot of conversation between eric houston and the negotiating team about you ve got to be the last person to come down. you re not going to come down, you know, surrounded by hostages. just moments ago, those students, some very shaken and very emotional, were loaded onto buses and taken to be debriefed and counseled. the final group of students is released. i remember seeing my mother and my sister-in-law and just
at first he was very agitated and very upset. gunman eric houston releases 15 hostages as an act of goodwill. the students we have seen walking out of here were very badly shaken. many were weeping. they looked stunned. they looked dazed. i just remember seeing my family and just being so relieved to be able to just hug my mom. when they called the kids names as they were being released from the school, we would go over and see if our kids were there. in my heart, i knew something was wrong, but i just kept staying and waiting. while americans are glued to
environmental crusaders they claim to be. they re locals. mrs. reso says she s concerned about her husband s health. he had a heart attack three years ago, but she says she has faith. he s courageous, he s honest, and he s good. so if anybody can survive any set of circumstances like that, he can do it. the suspect has been identified by the sheriff s department as eric houston. in olivehurst, california, the local community is facing a terrifying hostage situation. tom, are we any closer toward understanding what it is he wants? no, we still know nothing other than he came here with a grudge over treatment here when he was a student. i just remembering about the teacher that failed him, the teacher that broke up with him, that he had lost his job, so basically his entire life that s unraveling or falling apart so to speak all came back to the one teacher. school authorities and peace