Patrisse Cullors - The New York Times “In Los Angeles, the Ghosts of Rodney King and Watts Rise Again”

New York Times | June 3, 2020

“ LOS ANGELES — Patrisse Cullors was 8 in 1992, when Los Angeles erupted in riots after four police officers were acquitted of assault for the beating of Rodney King, which occurred outside a San Fernando Valley apartment building not far from where Ms. Cullors grew up.

‘I was scared as hell,’ she recalled. ‘As children, when we would see the police, our parents would tell us, ‘Behave, be quiet, don’t say anything.’’ There was such fear of law enforcement in this city.’”

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