Posted: July 2nd, 2012 | Author: Michael Courtenay | Filed under: Socially Engineered | Tags: 1992, LA Riots, Laurence Powell, Los Angeles District Attorney Ira Reiner, Los Angeles Riots, Reverend Al Sharpton, Rodney King, Rodney King Riots, Rolando Solano, Stacey Koon, Theodore Briseno, Timothy Wind | Comments Off
Rodney King, whose beating by police on March 3 1991 – and subsequent 1992 acquittal of the four LA police officers who inflicted the humiliation, sparking one of the worst urban riots in US history – has been laid to rest in Los Angeles, two weeks after his death aged 47.
Black rights campaigner Reverend Al Sharpton called King a “symbol of forgiveness” ahead of his funeral on Sunday at the Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills cemetery, north of the city.
“People should not be judged by the mistakes that they make, but by how they rise above them,” Reverend Sharpton said. ”Rodney had risen above his mistakes, he never mocked anyone, not the police, not the justice system, not anyone.”
King was found “unresponsive” at the bottom of his swimming pool in Rialto, east of Los Angeles in the early hours of June 17, by his fiancee Cynthia Kelley. A preliminary investigation showed no signs of foul play, while a full autopsy and toxicology reports are still pending.
Video footage of King being beaten by four white police officers in 1991 sparked deadly riots in Los Angeles and prompted a national debate about police brutality and race relations :: Read the full article »»»»
Posted: July 2nd, 2012 | Author: Michael Courtenay | Filed under: Socially Engineered | Tags: 1992, LA Riots, Laurence Powell, Los Angeles District Attorney Ira Reiner, Los Angeles Riots, Reverend Al Sharpton, Rodney King, Rodney King Riots, Rolando Solano, Stacey Koon, Theodore Briseno, Timothy Wind | Comments Off
Rodney King, whose beating by police on March 3 1991 – and subsequent 1992 acquittal of the four LA police officers who inflicted the humiliation, sparking one of the worst urban riots in US history – has been laid to rest in Los Angeles, two weeks after his death aged 47.
Black rights campaigner Reverend Al Sharpton called King a “symbol of forgiveness” ahead of his funeral on Sunday at the Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills cemetery, north of the city.
“People should not be judged by the mistakes that they make, but by how they rise above them,” Reverend Sharpton said. ”Rodney had risen above his mistakes, he never mocked anyone, not the police, not the justice system, not anyone.”
King was found “unresponsive” at the bottom of his swimming pool in Rialto, east of Los Angeles in the early hours of June 17, by his fiancee Cynthia Kelley. A preliminary investigation showed no signs of foul play, while a full autopsy and toxicology reports are still pending.
Video footage of King being beaten by four white police officers in 1991 sparked deadly riots in Los Angeles and prompted a national debate about police brutality and race relations :: Read the full article »»»»
Posted: July 2nd, 2012 | Author: Michael Courtenay | Filed under: Socially Engineered | Tags: Fukushima, Japan, Nuclear Accident, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Protests, Tokyo | Comments Off
Japan has restarted its first nuclear reactor since a country-wide shutdown two months ago, despite growing public protests in the aftermath of meltdowns at Fukushima. The process to restart the No. 3 reactor at Oi, in western Japan, began around 10:00pm Australian EST on Sunday, and was expected to reach criticality by 7:00am.
Hundreds of protesters blocked the road in front of the plant in a bid to stop it going back online. Footage streamed online showed a noisy demonstration, with protesters chanting “we are against the restart” as they faced a line of riot police.
Earlier in the day protesters took to the streets of Tokyo to oppose the restarts. Sunday’s demonstrations were the latest in a line of increasingly vocal anti-nuclear demonstrations in a country with little recent history of large-scale public protest :: Read the full article »»»»
Posted: July 2nd, 2012 | Author: Michael Courtenay | Filed under: Socially Engineered | Tags: Czech Republic, Lamb of God, Randy Blythe, twitter | Comments Off
Authorities in the Czech Republic say they have have arrested an American rock singer in connection with the death of a fan at a concert in Prague in 2010. Randy Blythe of the Grammy-nominated heavy metal band Lamb of God has reportedly been accused of pushing a fan off the stage.
The 19-year-old fan hit the concrete floor and died of his injuries two weeks later. According to reports, the fan had repeatedly tried to climb onto the stage before allegedly being pushed by Mr Blythe and hitting the concrete floor. A post-mortem examination reportedly found that he had not been drunk or under the influence of drugs. He died 14 days later of his injuries, said Czech TV station TV Nova.
Blythe, 44, will reportedly be released on bail on Monday :: Read the full article »»»»
