in la, we had the riots over the officers who beat rodney king in 1992 and we have to remember that withrge floyd, that is only the latest example of police brutality against black people and the violent deaths that many black people experience because of racism and just in a couple of months before that, there was a black man in georgia who was killed by two white men as he ran through their neighbourhood and a young woman in kentucky who was killed in her own home when detectives broke down the door and came in on a drug raid in which they found nothing, but she died of gunfire, and i think this is a confluence of all the events that have been happening recently. but even though it is the start of a very grim story, i have hopes that this narrative actually will then go on a different trajectory. the protests that we have seen have been nothing like what i have seen in the last few decades, including the rodney king riots, in terms of how sustained they have been, how they have been nationwide, almost no corner of the us has been untouched, it has also gone around the world and i think

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that was george herbert walker bush after the rodney king beating. president obama said after the murder of eric garner, right now, unfortunately, we are seeing too many instances where people just do not have confidence that folks are being treated fairly. in some cases, there may be misperceptions, but in some cases, that's the reality. and it is incumbent upon all of us as americans regardless of race, religion, region, faith, that we recognize this is an american problem and not just a black problem or brown problem or native american problem, but this is an american problem. when anybody in this country is not being treated equally under the law, that is a problem. i do want to quote my colleagues. he said this. firebombing police cars, burning down businesses, and ravishing our neighborhoods dishonors the lives of george floyd and others and will destroy thousands of livelihoods. so this is not without concern about what peaceful protests can sometimes lead to buy those who exploit the situation. but it is about how we treat people across our c

but the rodney king riots were not just about rodney king.grocer shot and killed a black woman, and there was no prison time. >> the message is that a black life is not worth very much. >> reporter: in the absence of lapd officers, ordered to step back, people like donald jones stepped in. >> i feel like as a black man, i always have to prove myself and go one step further. it doesn't matter what situation i'm in, i always have to do something extra to prove i'm a law-abiding citizen, a patriot of this country. >> reporter: jones is one of several key features in this documentary. >> in the early '80s, a street gang started to connect with drug dealers. >> we are determined to take back the streets of los angeles. >> operation hammer was a free ticket to go out and do overly aggressive police work. >> reporter: "let it fall" unravels a decade of disconnection that eventually exploded in 1992. >> the problem was, there were not people getting together and saying, this city, our issues, all the things affecting us are not being addressed. >> re

i remember talking to rodney floyd, george floyd's brother shortly before his funeral. he told me, he said, senator, we're from texas and what we want for george is texas sized justice. and i said, rodney, i'm going to do my very best to deliver, but unfortunately, even though there were many of our democratic colleagues who decried the cruel and tragic death of george floyd, when it came time to step up and actually do something about it, they absolutely refused. well, let me just go over quickly what the bill would have done as proposed subject to amendments and votes, there had been multiple opportunities to stop the bill if it wasn't heading in the direction they liked about you first of all, this would have made lynching a federal crime. you know, that provision in the bill was actually authored by senators harris and booker, but believe it or not, they filibustered and blocked their own bill. well, the justice act would have ended choke holds and prevented this dangerous and outdated tactic from being used in police departments across the country. what did our dem

opportunity for fraud, illinois republican rodney davis says he doesn't trust democrats just think this is a trojan horse, the democrats in washington are continuing to use to nationalize our election process louisiana republican mike johnson says instead congress should help states make it safer to vote in person we want every eligible american participate in every vote. >>we just don't believe the suggestions proposed by our colleagues on the other side of the aisle in regards to. >>her upcoming elections are in the best interest of maintaining the integrity of our election system republicans say they do support sending more federal money to local election authorities to help them deal with the pandemic in washington raquel martin. >>senator kamala harris sat down for an in-depth interview with kron 4 about everything the protest to what she's doing

riots sparked by the beating of rodney king by four l.a. police officers. in that case, california's governor had indeed invited the president's action. los angeles mayor eric garcetti joins me now. thank you, mr. mayor. thank you very much for being with us. first, you responded to a threat to push military action on any authorities whether they want it or not. >> we don't want it. we don't need it. and it's the wrong move. this is a moment of leadership that is to unite us, not to inflame us. to give us the common words that say not only, of course, do you need to restore peace but we understand the underlying conditions that have led to people going to the streets and exercising their first amendment rights. we've got to separate these two things. illegal acts are illegal acts. los angeles had a much better night last night. so many incredible stories of police and protesters coordinating. police leadership taking a knee with protesters, walking with folks. while at the same time we went after a second group of people separate that are looting and seekin

i thought it might be 20. >> reporter: rodney is an independent trucker.ather drove a truck, as did his father's father, and several of his uncles. rodney does almost all his own maintenance. >> if i have to change the entire head on the engine, i'll do that, pretty much everything. what needs to be done on my truck, i do it myself. >> reporter: home is opelousas, louisiana. business is picking up a little, but rodney still spends more time at home than is good for business. >> another load canceled. i believe they went to a carrier that is cheaper than i am. >> reporter: he hauls everything from soap to oil refinery equipment. he hasn't been landing contracts for the essential bids that are helping some truckers and companies prosper. tell me what kind of jobs you've had over the last month, let's say? >> i think i've moved two loads, and i've had about six of them canceled on me simply because i wouldn't reduce my rate. and they just found another truck that would do it cheaper. >> reporter: so in the last month, you've only had two runs? >> correct. >>

but what david and rodney and jenna have in common, is an uplifting sense of optimism. >> i could beive thinker but i choose not to. i try to be ready for the unexpected if that happens. >> you're going to make it through this all right? >> oh, absolutely, because that's what we do. when we break down on the side to have road and we talk six miles, four miles to get to what we need and get back and get to our tluk and deliver our load and nobody knows the difference, that's what we want to do. >> what's the bottom line here jenna? >> we're all doing the best that we can and for everyone to be kind. everyone use their best (music) (drumsticks rattle, feedback hums) (door closes in distance) ♪ (overlapping voices): we are producers, engineers, singers, songwriters, musicians, tour and live production crews, and thousands more of us. (male voice): without us, the music stops. (overlapping voices): we need your help (female voice): to keep the music playing. (male voice): support those impacted today at: musicares.org. we're still hard at work, because vulnerable students who already str

what happened in the rodney king case, it's a thin blue line that there people that see the police as justified in doing whatever they want because they protect law-abiding citizens from the chaos and those people over there. think that leads to a lot of injustice and reason for people to be out there protesting, as we saw even internationally. lawrence, i guess there are the people who protest who say they are put often offended by the writing and the looting because it muffles their peaceful message . [inaudible] they aren't the majority of people that are out there but they are the ones making the loudest noise. they no one williams mac me, we go at it. we come from afferent ideologies but if there's one thing that men share its being black men and the experiences we've had with law enforcement , law enforcement, although we may disagree on the politics of the day, we have tim's scott on the program minutes

do you find echoes in the current protests with your protesting as a college soting r rodney king? >> absolutely. i actually began myctivism long before that my parents were very engaged as teenagers c in til rights movement. so i grew up with a very healthy appreciation for activism and proteing. but the first decision i made on my own we were gonna go do this was when i protested in the wake of the rodney king decision, and it's identical in some of its scope. it was a video of police harming a citizen, beating him. and what was so disturbing, what erupted into those demonstrations was the exoneratioof those men on filmehavior was captured and yet explained away. that type of injustice that dehumanization is what's fueling this passion. what hope is different this time is that in 1992, we were in the midst a presidential campaign and demonstrations.tests but in 1993, we did not see change. and my hope is that in 2020, we will elect leadersat very level of government who actually take it as their responsibility to start to fundamentally address and dismantle these systems of suppr

not rodney. rodney played at alameda junior college and for san jose in the old aba.t something behind the back? oh, yeah, he's got that in his game. hey, globies, you need a point guard, we got your man. robbie, we just called your play on abc 7. >> oh, that's a bad man right there. send me your video, use #abc 7. to he,rcycleove th ico vee get here they're geico is givers with the geico giveback. and because we're committed for the long haul, the credit lasts your full policy term. the geico giveback. helping riders focus on the road ahead. >>> and that is it for us for tonight. thanks for watching. >> for all of us, we appreciate your time. o jim sarah ♪ ba, da, ba, ♪ ba, da, ba, ba, da, ba, ♪ ♪ jimmy kimmel live this is ridiculous. from his house. >> jimmy: hi there, you. it's me, jimmy, in my house again. which is now kind of "our" house. but don't come try to live in it. the nba seems ready to get back to work. yesterday, the league proposed 113 pages worth of safety rules and procedures for the rest of the season. first of all, all the games will be played at d

during the brutal police attack on rodney king and the ensuing on rest there how do you compare what you saw then to the protests we're seeing now. well that's true them originally from california and i remember there was tremendous tension during the bing king riots but the big difference is those riots lasted about a week and they weren't really nation why of course the tensions would carry on and continue because california is one of the states where there's disproportionate number of african-americans that are killed by the police compared to whites. but as those tensions continue to to fester we see nothing like what we have right now where we have 140 cities you have protests going on there are course riots taking place and we can see that the african-american community is absolutely fed up this is on the heels of the fact that the cove it 19 has been disproportionately also affecting african-americans many of them were workers they're dying in larger numbers they feel that they have been neglected they're incredibly frustrated and once again there's another case of them police

. >> the federal"w involvement in the george floyd case, the headline task force has echoes of rodney king, ferrite the justice department's civil rights investigation into the death of george floyd minneapolis police custody but attorney general bar at the center of a high profile racially charged reminiscent of one he handled in his first in the 80s. he oversaw the department's response to the video tape police beating of rodney king ultimately led to the los angeles riots in 19921 he was attorney general under age -- george h.w. bush. how confident are you attorney general part bar can handle the case of george floyd and prosecuted to its fullest? >> i'm not confident in general bar at all. after his response to the mueller report and his manipulation of the evidence in his rhetoric overall. i have zero conflict. which is sad because the justice isn't the attorney justice. i have no confidence they will not only protect black liveses but the lives all across this country. >> michael starr hopkins, democratic strategist here with us to talk about the unrest over the country, reactio

not rodney. rodney played at alameda junior college and for san jose in the old aba.mething behind the back? oh, yeah, he's got that in his game. hey, globies, you need a point guard, we got your man. called y on abc 7. >> oh, that's a bad man right there. send me your video, use #abc 7. ta-da! did you know liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need? i should get a quote. do it. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ when you think of a bank, you think of people in a place. but when you have the chase mobile app, your bank can be virtually any place. so, when you get a check... you can deposit it from here. and you can see your transactions and check your balance from here. you can detect suspicious activity on your account from here. and you can pay your friends back from here. so when someone asks you, "where's your bank?" you can tell them: here's my bank. or here's my bank. or, here's my bank. because if you download and use the chase mobile app, your bank is virtually any place. so visit chase.com/m

as policing changed in this country since the era of rodney king? >> well, the issues, there's more attention played to it, of course. we are looking at racial profiling in certain areas. i agree this is a fundamentally important area. look. the majority of police are not shooting cases. the ma joritymajority, many are based. a lot of activity has to be made terms that subjectivity. that officers have been using race as a basis to do, to stop people when they ought to not stop they will. from my point of view, there is more conscious efforts made. more notice with these issues. it will take a lot more work and i think this is a time to really carefully look at the question. it is not the same as it was with rodney king. i can tell you that. we don't have the same level of brutality that we have there. we still have the number of shootings, we still have the number of people being stopped wrongfully, i believe. racial profiling activity. we have the same number of people being mistreated in mental health, homelessness or whatever. it is different by

. >> george floyd, rihanna taylor all in just three months, it's 30 years of rodney king. >> the l.a. national guard was called in after widespread looting with more than a dozen states activating during the protest. the violence has brought a steady stream of cities issuing curfews and even came within a few hundred yards of the white house. president trump targeting one of the groups he said is behind the violence, tweeting the united states of america will be designated as a terrorist organization. the attorney general echoed those statements saying federal law enforcement actions will be directed at apprehending and charging the violent group of agitators who have hijacked peaceful protest and are engaged of violations of federal law. rioters who don't wait for dark in philadelphia where a number of police cars were set on fire. the head of the minnesota national guard said his soldiers are armed after receiving a warning from the fbi that there was a credible lethal threat against the minnesota national guard. >> there are shots fired, their sto pepper spray, let's move. >> the n

the suitcases on the floor we just plopped into bed and a quarter after 2 the phone rings and it's rodney dangerfield. quarter after 2 in the morning now and it's rodney i went oh yeah hey man what's doing alan we were growing up we were real poor. ok. now before the radio he said we were so poor that come christmas we couldn't put to the tree we used to wait for my grandfather to sneeze. and. i'm laughing because i thought it was funny and be the situation was even funnier and he says what do you think funny i when you know it's really funny but yeah that's what i thought and he hung up and he didn't he you know if. you know 30 near to the money is going to. look great larry gelbart will be once that he was doing the vietnam thing whiskey nose and he said to bob hope at this amazing ability to nap at the drop of an eyelid i mean he could just go out for 15 or 20 minute increments so gilbert says is a young guy and they're taking off from a fire zone or something there's literally ak ak out the window they're trying to sit on their helmets so they don't get their gen. clubs napping and th

the rodney king situation was extremely destructive. sin of the lapd and the cops that beat rodney king, there was a terrible price inflicted on the four people in a huge swath of los angeles that did nothing but go to work that day, dana. >> dana: so geraldo, in this situation where you have not just one city, cities across america, the national guard and adam kinsinger said that they can help the police by doing the things that police don't have to do like manning a barricade. you think the governor should be asking for the national guard or the president should step in here? >> well, it certainly looked to me in new york last night, dana, that they could have used the national guard or the army reserve or the insurrection act act or any help that they could get. i love the nypd. it's my hometown police department. it's huge. it's almost 40,000 strong, two army divisions. last night, seemed like they were a day late and a dollar short. the looters, the rioters. they weren't protesting. they were there to go shopping. seemed like they

yarel: tuviste una experiencia muy interesante en 1992, en la manifestaciones por rodney king. >> noe cuando vi los vÍdeos mucha gente estaba en shock y yo no porque lo vi como negro, sino que pensÉ que la policÍa hacia su trabajo. me criÉ de forma muy diferente. yarel: cuÁndo te identificaste con tu raza? >> cuando conocÍ a mi mamÁ, padre y hermanos biolÓgicos, tenÍa 22 aÑos. yo conocÍ a mi mamÁ en una prisiÓn y cuando me enfrentÉ con esa realidad pude pensar sobre mi cultura. yarel: cÓmo te sientes con lo que vivimos con las manifestaciones? >> esta vez me dio mucho coraje. desde que me identifique como afroamericano me da mucho coraje. no tengo palabras para describir lo que he pensado en estos dÍas, en casa. yarel: el poder de la protesta en la comunidad. hemos visto que la comunidad latina tambiÉn protesta. sientes que otras comunidades estÁn apoyando? >> sÍ, yo estoy viendo esto. cada persona que estÁ protestando me hace dar mucho gusto, cuando veo personas musulmanas, latinos y otros eso me da mucho orgullo en mi corazÓn. por primera vez en mi vida he visto que se estÁ reconoc

the last time it was used was 28 years ago in 1992 after the rodney king incident and situation in los angeles. and that situation local authorities asked for the federal government to come in. it was pinpointed. it was local. it was narrow and it was targeted. it was for a limited time. there are two other provisions of the insurrection act that allow a president of the united states to bring in the military if, for example, it's needed to put down what is called in the statute on insurrection or domestic violence or in another circumstance, if federal or state laws are being stymied or being -- not being able to be enforced. that, in fact, was a provision used by president eisenhower and president john f. kennedy back in the '50s and '60s to enforce civil rights law. so it may be toxic, it may be grandstanding, it may be not smart, it may be divisive, but the president does have some leg to stand on to call in the military. on the other hand, it's the kind of things that he threatens all the time and doesn't follow through on. >> preet bharara, our time is short. appreciate it. need

where we were 47 years ago the question remains for us though it was 29 years ago that we saw the rodney king beating and as an activist at the time i was sad at the tragedy it was horrific to see him be like that but most of the activists said finally finally we know we'll have just as there is no way these police officers are going to get off because the whole world saw what happened in the civil rights movement what led to the great change in the end of legal segregation aside from the 10s of thousands of people that protested it was the fact that there were cameras there the the beatings the treatment of black people in the south had gone on for frankly hundreds of years but it was a. until those cameras expose that that then things began to change and so what has happened in the 29 years since rodney king with the advent of cell phone cameras we have seen example after example after example 29 years since rodney king 20 years since amadou diallo 6 years since eric gardner just weeks since the death of george floyd his cannot be in vain i told his brother that his name will live on i

brutality to be documented on video has to be the 1991 beating by los angeles police officers of rodney of the event provoked an outcry. several documentaries have covered the incident of the riots the following year when three of the officers involved in the beating were acquitted. one of america's leading film—makers to focus on civil rights struggles stanley nelson is developing a documentary series on the relationship between the police and african—americans. i went to visit him. he told me that after the fact documentary films can provide background on how black people like george floyd come to die. i think documentary films‘ main role is to kind of look back and give context to what's happening. in many ways, the police in this country are an outgrowth of slave catchers, you know, and the relationship between african americans and the police force has never been a good one. it's always been, you know, an occupying army in our communities and that's where we are largely today. anybody growing up here, you tangibly know when you are crossing county lines you have to drive a little d

it is just heartbreaking. >> martha: rodney, what do you think when you see that?h it being training somewhat, it is more that the individual is someone who got into the police department and was not screened out. he brought something of himself into the police department, putting on a blue uniform does not make you become inhumane. we need to in all of the talk of reform and what we are going to do with police, we need to talk about how to screen out to get better people on the department who are not prone to that, and that comes out of our communities. and our communities need to take part in that by correcting the racism that is out there in the community. police officers joined the department and they come out of a community of racism, and they bring that into the department. in the individuals you see perpetrating these acts have gone on for years now, they are not police officers. they are individuals who infiltrated the profession that i serve and should not be on department but we have to figure out how to fix the community as they provide us police officer

he's spoken about the fact that during the rodney king tragedy that he belie ss heuld have been moreolved in dealing with the onslaught ofeaction, violent reaction in that city. but at the same time bar is a complicated figure. he's the same attorney general who sought to prosecute and did prosecute the officers who beat up rodney king in tha vicious way. and at the time, that was extremely rare for that to happen, bob. robert: jonathan,'ve been following your reporting all week. you come out of a great tradition at the "new york times." bo when you think the political side here, what was gained? was this a president thinking about the campaign and law and order and suburban vots or >> oh, y he had his eye on his re-election, certainly in his comments. i think he sees an opportunity to try to come acros as sobody who is -- pushing off to some voters frightening are seeing -- lootingre seeing s being broken into. trump has taken it upon himself saying if i'm the one as a strongan to come down on that conduct, i'm going to be over politically. that's a gamble, though, becaust if people

after the riots with the lapd years ago and rodney king.l anybody taking away $150 million away from the police department and the way they are talking about it now. having it come from the streets of protestors as an idea. what do you say? >> i am not talking about protestors. i think we have seen that laws do not enforce themselves. when you have the police that are not empowered or police that are overwhelmed by criminals, we have seen this illustrated in the last few days. when order where there none. it disappeared. in new york city, marie talked about police gear. we heard from police officers here who don't feel like they had enough gear. you saw looters and thieves and vandals running into buildings. it was open, the door was open literally on stealing from store after store in new york city. here the bail reform law that the governor magically is upset about, he championed it. you don't have cash bail for any crime except for the most violence offensives. what is going to happen, you will have vigilante justice and citizens and res

please come up, family. —— his brother rodney floyd. how are y'all doing first? we would sleep in the same bed, play video games together, go outside and play catch with the football and i used to say to myself "man, you can't throw, you can throw at all!" because the ball never came to me. and years down the line because i was catching with one hand, two hands, anyway you through iti hand, two hands, anyway you through it i started being able to catch it he said "i can throw but ijust wa nted he said "i can throw but ijust wanted you to go get the ball. the ball don't need to come to you, you need to get the ball." my brother, we did a lot of things together from talking with my mum, dancing with my mum, cooking with our mum, brothers and sisters. man, so much. we made ba na na and sisters. man, so much. we made banana mayonnaise sandwiches together. it was a family thing, you know? every day, we know when we come in the house our mum was going to have a huge plate of food separate from each other and we would sit there and argue with each other whose plate it w

r's task force has echoes of rodney king. they write the investigation puts attorney general barr at the center of a high profile, racially charged flashpoint reminiscent of one he handled in his first stint as attorney general in the 80's. beating of rodney king that ultimately led to the l.a. riots in 1992 when mr. barr was attorney general under george h.w. bush. how confident are you that attorney general barr, the justice department can handle the case of george floyd and pa rescued it --and prosecute it to its fullest? guest: i am not confident in attorney general barr at all. after his response to the mueller report and his manipulation of that evidence, that report, and his rhetoric overall, i have zero confidence in him. the department of justice is not the personal attorney of the president. he is the attorney -- it is the attorney of the people. it willonfidence that protect lives. starrour guest is michael hopkins, democratic strategist, to talk about the arrest -- the unrest all over the country. is the one for r

. >> after rodney king which i was there for and ferguson which i was around for and now with mr. floyd, yes, we need police oversight. not directing police activity. but monitoring and understanding. >> if they are serious about wanting to tackle the perceived issues they have, let's start the conversation right now. >> this is a resolution and not aloft. supervisor walton is taking the steps to make it legally binding. reporting live, ktvu fox2 news . >>> making news out of solano county. a helicopter went down in the area of line a and soda springs road. these are pictures from this scene. three people were believed to be on board the helicopter. also in the same area a cal fire water tender over tipped injuring three firefighters. their injuries are unknown. the cal fire crash happened on lion road but authorities have not said whether that crew was responding to the helicopter crash. >>> from the east bay to the northbay to san francisco and the south bay, protesters are run bay area streets demonstrating against the death of george floyd. for now they remain peaceful. we wil

. >> after rodney king which i was there for and perkinson which i was around four and now with mr. floyd, we need police oversight. not directing police activity but monitoring and understanding. >> if they are serious about wanting to tackle perceived issues, let's start the conversation right now. >> reporter: this is just a resolution, and not a law. supervisor walton is taking steps to make it legally binding. reporting live, greg lee, ktvu fox2 news. >>> we heard from dr. tungsten and he joins us live to continue the conversation. thank you so much for being here. tell us about what departments do right now to try to discipline or remove bad officers from patrol took >> many times we have a peace officer bill of rights which is due process law for police officers anytime they have an allegation of misconduct. we do thorough investigations on the misconduct and civil administrative. unfortunately i do not feel end of teeth have been given to police administrators to take the proper action against police officers to hold them accountable because of due process rights. no one's r

rodney, we just kaled your play on abc 7. >> how good is he? send me your video with a #abc 7 call my place so we could put you on tv. i have to be honest, rodney sent the first video and i went to his instagram and i was like this guy is unreal. i couldn't stop watching. >> don't think the glob trotters could do any of that. he's incredible. >> and larry, don't try any of that at home. >> i wouldn't. >> all right. s tbc 7 news at 11:00. >> you're looking at a pro-police rally in napa california where they are backing the blue. one of the first like this that we've seen in the entire bay area. we'll have a full report for you tonight at 11:00. >>> and right now walnut creek businesses are boarding up in response to a possible protest tonight. hear from business owners who say they are worried. that is it for this edition of abc7 news. thank you so much for joining us. get the news any time at the abc7 news. i'm ama alex: alex trebek here. your favorite champions, their best wins, and how they get to this season's tournament of champions coming

king 30 years of rodney and others. states all over this nation. only the name changes, but the color stays the same. you have the first press conference by prosecutors, looking at the minneapolis situation. it raised more questions than it answered. the real issue is the continuing racism in this country. endemicronic and it is and institutional. it speaks to a collective hypocrisy. we have very good at telling other people how to live their lives and how they should act. we preach a high standard, but we still discriminate on the basis of color of skin. that is the simple, painful truth. this is a moment for truth. at the same time, it is equally true that violence never were. how many protests have we had? how many nights have we gone through like last night? how many times have we burned down our own businesses, our own neighborhoods and our own communities? burning down your own house never works and it never makes sense. burning down your own struggling businesses. people trying to bring back the community. it dishonors mr. floyd's death. mr.

let's listen in to george fowey‘s younger brother rodney floyd is speaking now. make the best grilled cheese. can you please make it for me. if i tell you all as a six or seven—year—old kid i did that numerous times. you alljust using me. but you know, ijust happen to be doing it. but my big brother i mean, great guy, great gentleman, great man and as a child without no father figure he was a big great man and as a child without no fatherfigure he was a big brother. but i didn't see the stuff he was doing the best he can, and the m ista kes doing the best he can, and the mistakes he made and watching him, followed him corrected my sense is a grown man vels up as a followed him corrected my sense is a grown man vels up as a teenager growing up. learning from him how to bea man, growing up. learning from him how to be a man, everything he's taught us he was doing him but he was teaching us he was doing him but he was teaching us how to be a man because he was in the world already before us. he gave us the world already before us. he gave usa the world already befor

but rodney king's daughter was seven years at the time and she has been talking to the bbc. >> that isomething that sticks with you yourir e life. it's something you have to use your pain to sh yourassion through for other people going through the same thing you are going through. something that never goes away. t much has changed at all. maybe we have hope, then there is another viral video. and its repetitive. all in a, i would have to say no, things have not changed. ros: i want to turn to the internation l react george floyd's death. here in the u.k., thousands of over the weekend.emonstrations most were peaceful, however in elondon, pol say 35 officers were injured and 36 people were arrested. we heard from the home secretary on that issue earlier. >> to the criminal minority who have subvertedthhis cause with r thuggery, i simply say this -- your behavior is shameful and you will fa ros: and the prime minister agrees. boris johnson trett -- t people have the right to protest peacefully but they have nott right tok police. these are a betrayal to the cause they purport to serve. i

with us now are legal analyst joey jackson, executive director of the rodney king foundation, rodneyg's daughter, laura king. ms. king, let me just start with you as you reflect, because the officers in your father's case acquitted later, two of them found guilty of violating civil rights and served a couple years in prison. we have charges against one officer now but that's it. >> very disturbing. because it happened over and over and over again, and everybody that was actively there should be actively charged. i don't think that's fair at all. it's basically like a slap in the face. >> it's sad to hear. joey jackson, there is a legal issue involved here regarding charges against police officers which is based on a supreme court decision which, in effect, makes it more difficult, ev. even if they're charged, police often win a conviction. can you explain what that is to folks at home? >> let's just be clear, jim, because -- good morning to you, of course, good morning to poppy. there are supreme court decisions that speak to the issue of police acting reasonably and giving them bene

president bush was under circumstances similar to now, this was after the rodney king beating. following, to end the gratuitous demand -- brutality. law enforcement officials cannot place themselves above the law. it was a beating rendered and --re is no way in my view to president obama said, after the murder of eric garner that right now, unfortunately we are seeing too many instances where people do not have confidence. that is ae cases reality. americans, regardless of race and religion, we recognize that this is an american problem, not just a black or brown problem. when anybody in this country is not being treated equally under the law, that is a problem. speak to my colleagues. firebombing cars and burning down businesses and dishonorseighborhoods the lives of breonna taylor, george floyd, and ahmaud arbery. whatis a concern of protest can lead to with people who exploit the situation. it is about how we treat people all across the country. president obama says that people take pride in what they do, and would not identify with the actions that were taken against george

in the rodney king case, the jury acquitted.o we have to be careful, methodical, and we have to make sure we're playing the long game. >> joining me now is don he is special prosecutor for castile. you know in the castile case, the officer was acquitted. when you hear the attorney general saying please give me time to build a case so it is airtight, do you believe in that approach to law enforcement? >> i do agree that you've got to make sure that you have the evidence that supports the charges. i do also agree that you have to act urgently. so i suspect that the attorney general, who is now supervising this case, will do his best to collect the relevant evidence. i'm hoping he can do it within 30 days. there is just tremendous public pressure and urgency to move forward. >> as we move forward, one of the unique elements of this case is that often police departments retreat into a co coopcocoon, iu will. he showed up at the makeshift memorial yesterday. listen to his words. >> they want to know if the other officers should be ar

and, so, when i said about the rodney king thing, when you brought up the use of the insurrection actard for me to think about that time. i wrote down, i was president of my class, awarded the rhodes scholarship, and that night of the rodney king verdict, i remember writing it with shaking hands, why have i lost control? because the rage and hurt and anger that led me to the streets to march peacefully because i was so angry because, at that point, it had been a decade i'd had conversations with family members about this country will treat you differently. and yet here i had all these titles, all these things i worked for, but i knew there were experiences happening to people that could easily be me. and i think that what has made this moment in american history so difficult for all of us, after amaud arbery, after breonna taylor, after a black man in central park bird- watching, having police called on him, and then seeing the death of george floyd in front of us, a horrific, violent pornography of a killing... i think the thing that's made a lot of my friends just break down in tear

crow era of disco from the bottom up with the lynching and then right in the middle there you see rodney king that where the the cops are around him he's on the ground vehicles in the background that's from the rodney king video and then of course to air rising air kerner and all the way at the top of course is george floyd i mean just in recent history since the civil rights act you have watson what 65 and 66 that was about fleece for television you had l.a. in $92.00 that was about police brutality you have ferguson police brutality and now you have the george floyd protest song i'd like to bring you in at this point former police officer chief of police in greenville north carolina has that right can you introduce yourself and tell us what you're doing now and then approach. yes my name is house and. retired police chief i served to departments alexander virginia. retired from there and then was appointed chief in greenville. my move to greenville was as a result of that department needing to be reformed. thorough where you can absolutely be inside out. what i do now is work on severa

i still live there and i was working on this issue for a good 20 years before rodney king. i do.moment in our country and i have been so inspired by the protests. the protests that have even taken place in your country. in solidarity over what is happening here in the united states. there have been protests in every single state, and the character of the protests are very different and in some instances, you can look at the tv screen and you see an absolute rainbow and in some instances it is majority white. so i think it has raised the level of a discussion that finally the american people believe what african—america ns have been saying, and i hate to say this, but literally african—americans have been protesting about this issue for over 100 years. and finally because of cell phones and because of such a tragic death that the world saw, a slow murder of an individual, on video, and i think that has moved the country to act, and i am very proud to be carrying the legislation that i hope will bring about significant change to policing in the united states. you have been leading