Status Updates From Liberals with Attitude: The...

“After the Rodney King beating, there would be no more “both sides “at the Los Angeles Times about Darrell Gates and the LAPD. It was impossible to see the video. The writers address of the paper or no longer comfortable, ignoring or normalizing such beatings in the name of public safety.” Certainly have retracted from that today. Why?

David Johnston singled out by Gayes at a public meeting, car burglarized and notes stolen

Mentions KPFK, KCRW’s Which Way LA?, KABC’s British host Michael Jackson and Rush Limbaugh as radio influences - which POC radio was influencing LA?

“The challenge for Tom Bradley and his allies was just sustaining the outrage triggered by the Rodney King beating long enough to motivate The otherwise Raquel citrin council members to support meaningful change in the police department.” How does the square with the current media landscape, and what the Los Angeles Times has become?

Gates sent a letter asking for leniency in sentencing michael miliken

Gates shifted his position on the Rodney King beating from “aberration” to “instead embrace the idea that Rodney King had deserved his beating.”

Writes that the Rodney King beating was not regarded as out of the ordinary until the tape. Today, tapes have become commonplace and the behavior is normalized

Christopher commission did not include community activists at christopher’s direction

Tom yorty never publicly conceded to Tom Bradley

“Black officers …internalize Daryl Gates value system”