The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots
by Brenda Stevenson
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Helicopters thwopped low over the city, filming blocks of burning cars and buildings, mobs breaking into storefronts, and the vicious beating of truck driver Reginald Denny. For a week in April 1992, Los Angeles transformed into a cityscape of rage, purportedly due to the exoneration of four policemen who had beaten Rodney King. It should be no surprise that such intense anger erupted from something deeper than a single incident. In The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins, Brenda Stevenson show more tells the dramatic story of an earlier trial, a turning point on the road to the 1992 riot. On March 16, show lessTags
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