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L.A. Uprising
00:10:11
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| Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance. | |
| A lot of people don't want anyone watching my videos, so if you like what you see, I hope you'll send the link to some of your friends, maybe some of your enemies, too. | |
| A Minneapolis jury found Derek Chauvin guilty on all counts, murder and manslaughter, in the George Floyd case. | |
| There was never a chance for a fair trial. | |
| The jurors knew that an acquittal would mean coast-to-coast arson and looting, and so they decided that, beyond a reasonable doubt, Mr. Chauvin had, right there in the street, in front of everybody, showed a depraved mind in his disregard for human life. | |
| I'm going to tell you the story of what happened after a different jury verdict, 29 years ago, when police officers did get a fair trial. | |
| Jurors defied the lynch mob. | |
| And believe me, the mob was howling and voted to quit. | |
| Los Angeles went up in flames. | |
| It all started with a black man, Rodney King. | |
| On March 3, 1991, he led police on a merry chase as fast as 115 miles an hour through the streets of Los Angeles. | |
| He later said he just couldn't afford to be caught because he was on probation after a robbery conviction, was drunk. | |
| And he'd be in bad trouble if he were arrested. | |
| When police finally stopped the car, his two black passengers got out, obeyed police orders, and went home safely that night. | |
| When King got out, he danced and babbled, made obscene gestures at a policewoman, and waved at a police helicopter. | |
| The ranking officer, Stacy Kuhn, ordered four men to swarm King, take him to the ground, and cuff him. | |
| King, who was 6'4 and weighed 240 pounds, threw them off his back, and the police thought he must be on angel dust. | |
| His passengers thought he was high, too. | |
| Two taser shots didn't bring him down, so Sergeant Kuhn ordered the men to use batons. | |
| They hit him repeatedly, telling him they would stop if he would just lie still. | |
| It took 33 baton strikes and several kicks before they could cuff him. | |
| A man from across the street shot a video and turned it over to a TV station. | |
| Here is some of the footage. | |
| When Sergeant Kuhn first heard about the video, he was delighted. | |
| He thought it would make a great training video on escalation of force. | |
| He didn't know that the TV station had cut out the first part of the video that showed King throwing off the officers and charging them. | |
| And so there was George Floyd-style outrage with non-stop screaming about police racism, even though King himself said he didn't think race had anything to do with it. | |
| The media bellowed about race. | |
| In the month that followed his arrest, the Los Angeles Times printed the name Rodney King more than 900 times. | |
| So the officers were tried and acquitted. | |
| The jury forewoman said that she went into the trial revulsed by what she'd seen on the video. | |
| But after watching the whole tape and hearing all the evidence, she decided the officers were innocent. | |
| Rioting broke out in Los Angeles almost immediately, with blacks attacking any whites they could find. | |
| And | |
| LAPD. The most famous attack was on truck driver Reginald Denny. | |
| There's another driver badly beaten. | |
| Drivers of automobiles and trucks that enter this area can expect to... | |
| Oh, look at that. | |
| Oh, my gosh. | |
| Terrible. And there's no police presence down here. | |
| They will not enter the area. | |
| Oh, my... | |
| Oh, these are absolutely brutal attacks on innocent drivers in that area. | |
| This is attempted murder. | |
| He had 91 skull fractures, but he lived. | |
| A doctor said it was like being in a 60-mile-an-hour car crash without a seatbelt. | |
| Even after years of rehab, he still has trouble walking or speaking. | |
| Reginald Denny is famous only because a TV crew filmed him. | |
| Matt Haynes, a 32-year-old white man, was riding his motorcycle with his nephew to go help a black friend whose car wouldn't start. | |
| A mob of blacks. | |
| Knocked them off the bike and shot and killed Haynes. | |
| They shot his nephew three times, but he survived. | |
| Blacks shot and killed 49-year-old Howard Epstein as he was driving. | |
| They stripped him of valuables and ransacked the car. | |
| Blacks smashed the windows of Jeff Kramer's car and tried to drag him out, but the seatbelt held him in. | |
| They shot him three times, but he played dead and survived. | |
| You have to dig deep. | |
| To learn about these people. | |
| Ten whites were killed in the riots. | |
| How many of them were lynched by black mobs? | |
| No one knows. | |
| No one's supposed to care. | |
| Well, this was Los Angeles after the verdict. | |
| OCD from Engine 14 and 51st and Avalon. | |
| We need PD here. | |
| Fireman needs help. | |
| We're working on PD and we cannot get any PD for you. | |
| We have Captain Steve Ruda of the LA City Fire Department on the phone. | |
| Captain, can you tell us how many fires are burning right now and about injuries and so on? | |
| Right now, Chris, we have a minimum of at least 12 that we know of. | |
| Light force 50, roger. | |
| We're working on PD right now. | |
| If it gets bad, just pull out. | |
| Oh, thank you, sir. | |
| See, Kelly. | |
| Oh, PD from PES, Light force 35, 31st and Western. | |
| We have a fireman shot. | |
| We have a fireman shot. | |
| We need to help immediately. | |
| We need to have police escort into those. | |
| Later, things got worse. | |
| Of course, There was looting. | |
| you can see the uh marika if you'll just uh zoom in there tom's liquor store is in the process of being | |
| While the looting seems to continue unabated, | |
| the mood, at least, seems to be very calm today. | |
| We get right through there. | |
| It says factory direct sale. | |
| This is the biggest sale they've probably ever seen. | |
| It's like people are looting anything they can get their hands on. | |
| Here's a guy with a plant, even, coming right out the front window and taking off. | |
| Some black businesses were destroyed. | |
| In black ghettos, some businesses tried this. | |
| Often, it didn't work. | |
| It's not right! | |
| It's not right what y'all do! | |
| I came from the ghetto, too! | |
| You mad at the white man! | |
| Why did you join my business? | |
| Thank you. | |
| Blacks hate Koreans because they come into black neighborhoods and start successful businesses. | |
| So the mob looted or burned more than 2,300 Korean-owned businesses, which accounted for about half the damage to the city. | |
| This is what it was like for one lady. | |
| *Royal music* *Royal music* *Royal music* *Royal music* *Royal music* | |
| music* | |
| Some Koreans fought back. | |
| I took everything, liquor, beer. | |
| When you got here, you said people were still inside the store. | |
| What did you do? | |
| Still inside. | |
| I shot eight times, everybody moved. | |
| Here are more Koreans in action. | |
| There are some cars that have some guns and they're shooting back at the Koreans here. | |
| They're in the middle of a gunfight. | |
| Seems like someone's been shot. | |
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National Guard Presence Felt
00:03:15
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| Where? Someone's been shot in the car? | |
| I think we should get out of here. | |
| Sean, you're up to see what I think is. | |
| I think it is. | |
| The rioting went on for six days. | |
| A total of 54 people died. | |
| There was a billion dollars in damage. | |
| And it took 10,000 National Guardsmen to bring peace. | |
| Deputies from the Lakewood Sheriff's substation are escorting California National Guardsmen into the Crenshaw District. | |
| The National Guard presence is being felt here and seen. | |
| I just saw armored vehicles with troops. | |
| Armed with M-16s out on Martin Luther King Boulevard. | |
| The California Army National Guard has been deployed to assist the Sheriff's Department and Los Angeles Police Department in a mutual aid operation to restore law and order and to protect life and property in Los Angeles County. | |
| Just as it did for George Floyd, rioting worked. | |
| Thousands and thousands of rioters couldn't all be wrong, right? | |
| The media, who said it was pure racism, couldn't be wrong either, right? | |
| So, the federal government used its favorite gimmick to get around double jeopardy and charge the officers with depriving King of his civil rights. | |
| And, wow, they got a conviction. | |
| After the worst mayhem since the New York City draft riots of 1863, a high school kid could have got a conviction. | |
| And what became of motorist Rodney King, as the media loved to call him. | |
| He was never charged for his drunk driving, violating parole, reckless driving, or resisting arrest. | |
| Here he is, three days after the beating. | |
| Much was made of the fact that he had some broken bones. | |
| But just a few weeks later, he was feeling chipper enough to solicit a transvestite prostitute and try to run over the cop who tried to stop him. | |
| In 1993, the city of Los Angeles paid him $3.8 million. | |
| He blew most of it trying to start a record label. | |
| He went on to get himself arrested at least 11 more times for such things as hit-and-run, domestic violence, indecent exposure, and drunk driving. | |
| On June 17, 2012, he tanked up on alcohol and drugs and drowned in a swimming pool, age 47. But this small-time thug taught black people an important lesson. | |
| If you loot and burn like you really mean it, you'll get what you want. | |
| You'll get a lot more than groceries. | |
| And King taught white people the same lesson. | |
| If the media egg on the black people and enough of them go crazy, it's your patriotic duty to do what they want. | |
| And as we saw just this week, these are lessons the country is not about. | |