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On March 3, 1991, 20 years ago today, a black male Los Angeles resident named Rodney King was stopped by the LAPD for speeding. Four officers brutally beat him, and, in one of the first modern instances of citizen journalism, the whole thing was caught on tape. What follow are the first-person narratives of eight everyday Angelenos, who were children, teenagers, college students, and educators at the time. The beating, the unthinkable acquittal of the officers, and the riots that followed forever changed how they think about society and justice.
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