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USC Professor On How Protests Have Changed Since LA Riots In 1992

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Looting, fires, vandalism and the National Guard on the streets — for many, the unrest of 2020 evokes memories of the destructive riots of 1992 in Los
Looting, fires, vandalism and the National Guard on the streets — for many, the unrest of 2020 evokes memories of the destructive riots of 1992 in Los Angeles.
Both times the protests began in anger over police violence against black men — in 1992, when four police officers were acquitted of the brutal beating of Rodney King; now, when George Floyd died in Minnesota after a policeman knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.
«We keep telling ourselves that somehow technology or training will end police misconduct,» says Jody David Armour, a law professor who studies the intersection of race and the criminal justice system.
«But in this case, we saw that in Minnesota, the police department did a lot of that stuff. And still here we are.»
Armour, who has taught at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles since 1995, talked with All Things Considered about how protests have changed in the 28 years since the Rodney King riots.
On the people who are protesting now vs. in 1992
The protests and marches today you see are multiethnic, multicultural, even multigenerational.

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