go home! it s like a bomb. we re sitting on a bomb. you can have a black person killed with a video, then this is what you ll get. this is a revolution. should people be frightened? i think people should wake up. it s 1991. wake up. we have talked at each other and about each other for a long time. it s high time we all began talking with each other. no justice, no peace! can we all get along? in about 20 minutes from now david dinkins, who is now mayor dinkins, is scheduled to step out from city hall and take a public oath of office and become new york city s 106th mayor and the city s first african-american mayor. i intend to be the mayor of all the people of new york. david dinkins being inaugurated on new year s day in 1990 is an auspicious start to the decade and really a culmination of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. people are starting to see tangible benefits of that struggle. a grandson of slaves was sworn in today a
and they are angry. - new york city is symptomatic of what s happening in the nation in the early 1990s in what one writer describes as a season of racial tension, and it really is complicated by the fact that you have african-americans dealing with stifling poverty and inequality and police injustice that s being perpetrated against communities of color. rodney king, in 1991, exposed some of that when his beating is captured on camera. - in los angeles, outrage grows over a videotape of police beating an unarmed motorist. - another explosive case involving white police officers. - beating a man they had just pulled over. - and an amateur cameraman recorded it all. - we here in los angeles was just struck by the maliciousness of what we saw, the inhumane sense of this person struggling on the ground, being battered repeatedly. - this is 1991, and things haven t changed as far as minority is concerned. if you re black, and you re mexican,
new york city is symptomatic of what s happening in the nation in the early 1990s and what one writer described as a season of racial tension. it really is complicated by the fact that you have african-americans dealing with stifling poverty and inequality and police injustice that s being perpetrated against people of color. rodney king in 1991 exposed some of that when his beating was captured on camera. in los angeles, outrage grows over a videotape of police beating an unarmed motorist. explosive case involving white police officers beating a man they had just pulled over amateur cameraman recorded it all. we here in los angeles was just struck by the maliciousness of what we saw. the inhumane sense of this person struggling on the ground being battered repeatedly. this is 1991, and things haven t changed as far as minority is concerned. if you re black and you re
nation in the early 1990s and what one writer described as a season of racial tension. it really is complicated by the fact that you have african-americans dealing with stifling poverty and inequality and police injustice being perpetrated against people of color. rodney king exposed some of that when his beating was captured on camera. in los angeles, outrage grows over a videotape of police beating an unarmed motorist. explosive case involves white police officers. beating a man just pulled over. amateur cameraman recorded it all. we here in los angeles was just struck by the maliciousness of what we saw. the inhumane sense of this person struggling on the ground being battered repeatedly. this is 1991, and things haven t changed as far as minority is concerned. if you re black and mexican, you are going to have a problem with law enforcement.
camera. in los angeles, outrage grows over a videotape of police beating an unarmed motorist. explosive case involves white police officers. beating man just pulled over. amateur cameraman recorded it all. we here in los angeles was just struck by the maliciousness of what we saw. the inhumane sense of this person struggling on the ground being battered repeatedly. this is 1991, and things haven t changed as far as minority is concerned. if you re black and mexican, you gone have a problem with law enforcement. city officials have received thousands of angry phone calls from across the united states. when the rodney king video hit, everybody in the hood was like, okay, finally, they caught them. what s going to happen now? now that they have shown a lynching on tv. multiple officers from multiple agencies witnessed this and not one single officer that night ever reported that anything had gone wrong. that to me suggested that there s a deeper problem than just a coupl