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1) The system
Author
Publisher
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
On December 6, 1993, when a drug dealer called Scrappy is shot and left for dead on the lawn outside her mother's house in South Central Los Angeles, a heroin addict fingers two drug dealers as the killers, but only one of them is guilty.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"At 3:15 p.m. on April 29, 1992, a jury acquitted two Los Angeles Police Department officers charged with using excessive force to subdue civilian Rodney King, and failed to reach a verdict on the same charges involving a third officer. Less than two hours later, the city of LA, a powder keg of racial tension, exploded in violence as people took to the streets in a terrifying orgy of rioting that lasted six days. In 144 hours, sixty lives were lost....