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Rampart Division officers restrain a man resisting arrest

Photograph: Joseph Rodríguez

'Feeling the heat from all sides':

on patrol with the LAPD – in pictures

Joseph Rodríguez’s images of car crashes and drug busts

were taken more than 25 years ago

– yet they relate to current debates

around police violence and incarceration

G

Thu 4 Mar 2021    07.00 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/mar/04/
the-heat-on-patrol-with-the-lapd-joseph-rodriguez-in-pictures

Officer Llanes and his partner from the Pacific Division

confront a man who was using drugs while squatting and sleeping

in an apartment building garage

Photograph: Joseph Rodríguez

'Feeling the heat from all sides':

on patrol with the LAPD – in pictures

Joseph Rodríguez’s images of car crashes and drug busts

were taken more than 25 years ago

– yet they relate to current debates

around police violence and incarceration

G

Thu 4 Mar 2021    07.00 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/mar/04/
the-heat-on-patrol-with-the-lapd-joseph-rodriguez-in-pictures

Exhausted at 4am at the Rampart office

Photograph: Joseph Rodríguez

'Feeling the heat from all sides':

on patrol with the LAPD – in pictures

Joseph Rodríguez’s images of car crashes and drug busts

were taken more than 25 years ago

– yet they relate to current debates

around police violence and incarceration

G

Thu 4 Mar 2021    07.00 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/mar/04/
the-heat-on-patrol-with-the-lapd-joseph-rodriguez-in-pictures

Photograph: Joseph Rodríguez

'Feeling the heat from all sides':

on patrol with the LAPD – in pictures

Joseph Rodríguez’s images of car crashes and drug busts

were taken more than 25 years ago

– yet they relate to current debates

around police violence and incarceration

G

Thu 4 Mar 2021    07.00 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/mar/04/
the-heat-on-patrol-with-the-lapd-joseph-rodriguez-in-pictures

USA > Los Angeles Police Department    LAPD        UK / USA

2023

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/03/
1180003943/keenan-anderson-los-angeles-police-death

2021

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/30/
los-angeles-police-department-killings-lapd-valentina-orellana-peralta

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/mar/04/
the-heat-on-patrol-with-the-lapd-joseph-rodriguez-in-pictures

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/24/
970934358/one-of-lapds-first-black-officers-reinstated-
more-than-120-years-after-his-firin

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/jul/16/
real-life-film-noir-scenes-from-the-lapd-in-pictures

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/09/07/
438353111/martin-milner-star-of-adam-12-and-route-66-
dies-at-83

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/may/18/
destination-morgue-james-ellroy-los-angeles-crime-scene-secrets-in-pictures

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/09/us/
for-some-suspects-charges-of-police-racism-resound.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/
movies/24chan.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/
arts/24iht-fmreview24.1.17189970.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/22/
arts/22iht-cannes.1.13079568.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/21/
movies/21dargis.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/16/
us/3-of-4-officers-convicted-in-police-corruption-case.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/11/
us/police-corruption-inquiry-expands-in-los-angeles.html

1997

https://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/19/
movies/film-review-the-dark-underbelly-of-a-sunny-town.html

LAPD's Black officers

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/24/
970934358/one-of-lapds-first-black-officers-reinstated-more-than-120-years-
after-his-firin

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department

https://lasd.org/

1992 > LA riots / uprisings

 four Los Angeles policemen

— three of them white —

were acquitted

of the savage beating of Rodney King,

an African-American man.

Caught on camera by a bystander,

graphic video of the attack

was broadcast into homes

across the nation and worldwide.

Fury over the acquittal

— stoked by years of racial

and economic inequality in the city —

spilled over into the streets,

resulting in five days of rioting

in Los Angeles.

It ignited a national conversation

about racial and economic disparity

and police use of force that continues

today.

(...)

A year earlier, in March 1991,

King — who was on parole for robbery —

had led police on a high-speed chase

through Los Angeles;

later, he was charged

with driving under the influence.
 

When police finally stopped him,

King was ordered out of the car.

Los Angeles Police Department officers

then kicked him repeatedly

and beat him with batons

for a reported 15 minutes.

The video showed

that more than a dozen cops stood by,

watching and commenting on the beating.

King's injuries resulted in skull fractures,

broken bones and teeth,

and permanent brain damage.

Ultimately,

four officers were charged

with excessive use of force.

A year later, on April 29, 1992,

a jury consisting of 12 residents

from the distant suburbs of Ventura County

— nine white, one Latino, one biracial, one Asian —

found the four officers not guilty.

https://www.npr.org/2017/04/26/
524744989/when-la-erupted-in-anger-a-look-back-at-the-rodney-king-riots

https://www.npr.org/2022/04/29/
1095676460/the-l-a-riots-30-years-later

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/04/28/
magazine/la-riot-timeline-photos.html

https://www.npr.org/2017/04/26/
524744989/when-la-erupted-in-anger-
a-look-back-at-the-rodney-king-riots

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/03/
us/riots-los-angeles-new-york-region-
despite-scattered-violence-most-protests-are.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/30/
us/the-police-verdict-verdict-
sets-off-a-wave-of-shock-and-anger.html

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