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What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law

52- Pattern and Practice

What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law

Roman Mars

Government

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🗓️ 3 May 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

What can a President do when it comes to reforming the approximately 18,000 locally governed police departments around the US?

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0:00.0

So we're recording this on Wednesday, April 28th, and Trump is not been in office for quite

0:05.5

some time. So what are we going to talk about?

0:08.4

All right. Well, let's take a little time travel trip. Let's go back 30 years to Los Angeles.

0:16.4

And 30 years ago, the general manager of a local rescue

0:20.4

router, that's a plumbing company, he bought a Valentine's Day gift for his wife. That was a

0:25.3

Sony video eight handicap camcorder, state of the art. He'd been using it and he was going to

0:30.9

videotape one of his employees running in the LA marathon. In the middle of the night,

0:35.2

after he'd set his alarm to wake up early, so he'd go to the marathon on time.

0:39.3

The manager, his name's George Holiday, he wakes up. There's really loud police sirens,

0:44.5

right, in his neighborhood. The neighborhood's called Lake Futeris. There are squad cars,

0:50.2

and there's even a police helicopter in the sky with a spotlight. So holiday grabs his

0:54.9

camcorder. And from the window of his second floor apartment, he starts taping. Now the video he

1:00.6

takes is short. It's just 90 seconds. There's no sound. And the images are grainy, not sharp.

1:08.1

But what happened is very clear. The video shows a black man down on his hands and knees,

1:14.4

surrounded by police officers. He'd already been hit twice by an electronic stunga.

1:18.9

And he is repeatedly beaten by a group of four LAPD officers at the scene. 56 times by

1:27.9

metal police batons all the while while he's on the ground. There's also a group of about 10

1:33.9

other officers at the scene. And they're just there. They watch as the other police beat Rodney King.

1:50.1

I thought they were going to kill me. That's what I thought. After they tied me up like that,

1:53.7

and handcuffed me. I thought I was going to die. Now all of us started when California Highway

1:59.3

Patrol officers saw King's car speeding. When he didn't pull over, they began a high speed chase.

2:06.4

Now King eventually stopped his car. And for reasons that were never fully clear, King's car is

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