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JUSTICE: Crime & Scandal | May 4, 1992


THE L.A. RIOT & THE ABUSE OF POWER

An Unpublished Letter to Los Angeles Times

Rodney King was wrong.

The officers who beat him or who stood by and watched were wrong.

The jury was wrong.

The looters, arsonists, and murderers were wrong.

Gates, Bradley, Wilson, and Bush have all been wrong [in their handling of the riot]...and their supporters, too.

Racism and poverty are wrong.

This all has been less about "right and wrong" than about sheer POWER.

And that is the greatest wrong of all.

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