25th anniversary of the rodney king riots. My report from los angeles and well ask you about this, have Race Relations gotten better or worse since rodney king . And the white house Correspondents Dinner going on without President Trump there last night. Was the president s decision not to be there, was that a smart move . All right, to voice your opinions, pull out your digital device. You can let us know what you think on our pulse questions by grabbing your phone or laptop. Log on to msnbc or rather, pulse. Msnbc. Com america. And there you can give us your response. By the way, you can vote as many times as youd like throughout todays show. Just, yeah, go ahead. You can overdo it. First off, well start off with this. New controversy for trump surfacing not long after the visit to pennsylvania with the crowd cheering him on 100 days into his administration. Mr. Trump pushed the tax plan and get tough approach on trade with a big serving of media bashing on the side. Nbcs Kelly Odonn
rodney king denied to reporters he resisted the los angeles policemen. a year later, the judge s decision polarized america. a surprise, a jury in the king trial returns no not gui y guilty not guilty verdicts. april, 1992, the deadliest riot in modern history. most expensive at over $1 billion. and not commonly known. probably the most diverse. 51% of arrests were latino. 36% black. 9% white. 2% asian. people, um, i want to say, you know, can we all get along? can we get along? like today, leyland porter was a bus driver in south central in 1992. his eyes remember. businesses around me started to close. and i immediately high tailed it home looking for my wife. toni richardson calls south central home today. she was born the year of the
enterprise at. at the core is a blue collar working class community. from the hispanic perspective i think that s what you re built to go to work, get a job. because of that, that becomes a working class. but there s still those seven minutes of rodney king on tape. a historic first in the use of the term caught on tape. police in the line of duty, a black man being beaten. another 92 could have easily happened. it could happen in los angeles, and it could happen anywhere in the country. toni s solution is education. the usc grad student wants to be a university dean. peace is kind of the idea peace and equality is the goal instead of working off of anger. enter life long south central resident, leyland. he stuck it it oeven when things fell even when things fell apart. if i were to quit, then i would become part of the problem. i have to stay to show everyone
else there is a level of good in my people. i m here to scream that i the middle of the night. driving in the mide of the night, also why leyland says his wife prays. it seems to be working. all right. joining us right now is a mayor, and the son of cesar chavez and ron allen who covered the trial of the police officers and the riots that followed 25 years ago. starting with you on this ron, when we look at where it is today, and trying to understand the significance of what happened 25 years ago, how do we put it in context? i think the rodney king tape told america that this happens. because for years, if not decades, young african-americans claimed police brutality and nobody believed them. so the tape said, here. since then of course now fast