Liberals with Attitude: The Rodney King Beating and the Fight for the Soul of Los Angeles (Hardcover)

LIBERALS WITH ATTITUDE DOCUMENTS THE SIXTEEN MONTHS IN 1991-92 between the brutal beating of Rodney King by four police officers that was captured on a home video camera and the resignation of LAPD chief Daryl Gates. Gates was reviled by local Black and civil liberties communities because of the pattern of racism in the department and he was uniquely powerfu...