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Criminal Justice System the cases will show if we do and lets see what happens. Host a history professor at ucla former chair of the history department. Where were you . March 1991 i had just moved to a los angeles i had just begun and as an assistant professor in january. I was living in faculty housing trying to figure out what l. A. Was all about and was coming from austin, the deep south and raised in virginia, the upper south to school in the northeast i wanted to know what the west was about the most racially diverse city in the world at the time possibly. I turn on my television the day after rodney king was beaten and i saw the videotape then two weeks later i see Latasha Harlins and i thought what have i done to come here . [laughter] when i left texas and came to california i expected something very different so these captured my imagination and immediately as a sc ....
Breaking up the foggy conditions for parts of the north bay this morning. A going bridget shot. Were a flogging in this morning temperatures are still fairly mild 56 downtown San Francisco oakland 49 san jose lower 50s and in fact where expecting another warm day to day. Excess of low clouds tuesday the start off temperature is really start to cool down tuesday and notice the difference tomorrow wednesday thursday watching the storm arriving was the right rain no big rainmaker. But still going to see some rain wednesday and thursday. And a Cloud Visibility looking into a foggy conditions not everywhere livermore confining clear. Tucker fairfield nappa down to west less than half a mile and santa rosa the ground to and have Half Moon Bay down the zero. Is driving along with xhosas morning. You will encounter dense fog out ....
The starkly different reactions of Black and white Americans to the O.J. Simpson verdict exposed the persistent and extensive history of racial disparities in the American criminal justice system, where ....
- thurgood marshall was the lawyer on brown versus board of education. he was on the supreme court to give a voice to black americans. - i kept my word to the american people and to the senate by picking the best man for the job on the merits, and the fact he s minority, so much the better. - judge, what do you say to critics who say the only reason you re being picked is because you re black? - i think a lot worse things have been said. i disagree with that, but i ll have to live with it. - the senate is scheduled to vote tomorrow on the supreme court nomination of clarence thomas, but now some lawmakers are concerned about an accusation of sexual harassment dating back ten years. - anita hill enters the room now. - democrats were gonna challenge clarence thomas on the basis of his conservative views. his race was not gonna be an issue, but i think the anita hill allegations brought race back into the picture. - the senate judiciary committee is meeting to hear evidence on sexual hara ....
In the back of the head. - that it should come so quickly after king, and both should be on video, i think really had the sense for many people of saying, okay, now we finally have evidence of what we ve been complaining about. - a jury convicted du of voluntary manslaughter. judge joyce karlin sentenced du to parole and community service but no jail time. - she got away with murder. - you can have a black person killed with a video, with eyewitnesses, and this is what you will get. [together] stop killing our children. we want justice. - the case has become a symbol of tensions between african-americans and the koreans who ve become successful merchants in many of the poorest black neighborhoods. - south los angeles had been kind of abandoned by a lot of commercial entities. there weren t many markets, so liquor stores became, like, the stand-in, the place that you would go for cigarettes, diapers, milk, whatever. - why don t you open a market that we can use for our family? - or go ....