and they are angry. - new york city is symptomatic of what's happening in the nation in the early 1990s in what one writer describes as a "season of racial tension," and it really is complicated by the fact that you have african-americans dealing with stifling poverty and inequality and police injustice that's being perpetrated against communities of color. rodney king, in 1991, exposed some of that when his beating is captured on camera. - in los angeles, outrage grows over a videotape of police beating an unarmed motorist. - another explosive case involving white police officers... - beating a man they had just pulled over. - and an amateur cameraman recorded it all. - we here in los angeles was just struck by the maliciousness of what we saw, the inhumane sense of this person struggling on the ground, being battered repeatedly. - this is 1991, and things haven't changed as far as minority is concerned. if you're black, and you're mexican,