Listen as Larry spoke with Chuck DeVore, Vice President of National Initiatives at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, regarding his latest article, What I Learned About Civil Unrest During The Los Angeles Riots 25 Years Ago.
An excerpt of The Federalist article is below:
The age of cell phone video ubiquity treats us with daily outrages over people in authority behaving badly towards the powerless. Unreasoned passion leads to a thirst for justice, or at least the appearance of justice.
In 1991, there were no cell-phone cameras and the Internet was still in its infancy. In March of that year, after a high-speed chase through the night, Los Angeles Police Department officers arrested Rodney King. King was intoxicated. He later admitted that he tried to evade the police because a DUI charge would violate his parole conditions for a prior robbery conviction. [Read More]
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