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June 20, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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When the Jury Got it Wrong
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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.
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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.
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.
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