... Line and Gold Line. The underground subway has a Red line and Purple line. The central base of operation for all the rail lines is the Union Station near downtown Los Angeles. When we visited the Union Station, it was a dynamic experience where you could see hundreds of people traveling to different destinations just like an airport. Each line serves a different destination. The ... Blue line connects Long Beach to Central Los Angeles. The Gold Line goes from East L.A. to Pasadena. The Red Line runs from Union Station in downtown to Hollywood and North Hollywood. The Purple Line goes fr...

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... perfectly. Greg Alan Williams witnessed the unfolding event from the safety of his car. A man ran down the street toward a gas station while four assailants pursued him. Williams, seeing the flight of the victim pulled his car expediently into the Shell station. Upon exiting his car, he noticed that although the man had pale skin, he too was a brother. These hoodlums cared ... ...

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... pillow, reclined my side of the sofa, and grabbed my soft velvet afghan. I pressed the button on the remote control; the TV flared to life, and I was appalled with every station I switched to, from factual stories in the news, to the violence in the movies being shown, to the so called comedy of the cartoons, the shows all revolved around violence ... by TV with the same importance. Any violence is TV news, the video capture and sound bite is what TV deems important. I keep clicking again and again. Is there any station broadcasting news that is not "violent"? I choose next to find a mo...

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... again, revealing the Officer pummeling King with their batons. The total amount of tape lasted 81 seconds, but the edited version of the videotape, was 68 seconds and the first station to receive the video was KTLA. The edited video cut out the first part of King charging Powell, and the blurry footage. King committed many crimes on the night of ... 3000 army troops to the South Central section of Los Angeles. At 7:30 it started to get dark, so the rioters lit fires. By 8:00 two auto-repair shops, a gas station, a TV repair shop, the house of a minister, and the dining room of a church....

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... head hard against the asphalt. King was taken to the hospital and could not recall anything after his first blow. On March 4, Holliday took his film to a Los Angeles TV station. "Television used tape like wallpaper" said CNN vice president Ed Turner. Prosecutorial wheels began to turn, and not for Rodney King, who was released without charges. As for ... ...

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... of Florence Boulevard and Normandie Avenue and attempted to disperse the crowd of angry people. However, the rioters outnumbered the police officers causing them to retreat back to the police station ending day one of the riots. Thursday morning of April 30th, 1992 was relatively calm, but the riots began to start up again by mid-morning. The protesters began to ... ...

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... afflicted upon citizens as an alternative form of discipline. Most victims of police brutality are the poor and people of color. For example on August 9th at the 70th Precinct Station House in Brooklyn, two uniformed police officers tortured a Haitian immigrant named Abner Louima by driving the wooden handle of a toilet plunger into his rectum and puncturing his small intestine. They ... ...

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... time." He added another insulting comment relating the disturbance to "Gorillas in the Mist." The next day, March 4, 1991, Holliday decided to take his tape to the Los Angeles television station. They found this very disturbing and played it on the evening news. This gained so much publicity after CNN started broadcasting it everywhere. Everyone felt that excessive force was used ... ...

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... make this dream become a reality. My name was pulled from a drawing to win a trip for two to Los Angeles and see the taping of the sitcom, "Baywatch."" When the radio station called my house to tell me the news, I began to cry. As I jotted down the details, my hands were shaking because I was in complete shock. In exactly one month, I would ... ...

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... , it now seems as if the inhabitants are transient and unsettled. Because Los Angeles grew so rapidly and the location of its residents changed consistently, Palos Verdes seemed like a way-station stopover for catching one's breath. Often, friends from school would disappear and be replaced with new faces. Personally, I have nothing against change or growth as such, however I do still hold ... ...

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... radio stations in New York and Los Angeles. Two stations WBLS New York and KACE in Los Angeles, have announced they wont play the roughest and most offensive songs. A third station WPWR opted for a different route, saying it would lose credibility with its audience if it banned music that reflects the language of urban life. "We've got to speak their ... ...

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... street the police only gave him a citation and sent him home. But Kary wanted more than that so she put him in her car and drove him to the police station in desperate plea for help. But all they told her was "There's nothing we can do." So again she was faced with this huge problem and she was alone. Kary ... ...

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... , never to be seen again. Just then, Magic stepped back into the picture, "Alright Joe, let's get these guys in my van and we"ll take them down to the station." "Jeffrey Clark, get out of bed right this instant, we gotta get going to the Super Bowl!" screamed my mom. "Holy crap, it wasn't real," I thought to myself, "what a weird ... ...

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... damage. A man named George Holliday was standing on the balcony of a nearby building and videotaped the incident. The next day, March 4, he gave his 81-second tape to a local L.A. TV station. By the end of the day, TV stations worldwide were broadcasting the video. On March 15, 1991, four police officers faced charges of assault with a deadly weapon and use of ... ...

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... radio stations in New York and Los Angeles. Two stations WBLS New York and KACE in Los Angeles, have announced they wont play the roughest and most offensive songs. A third station WPWR opted for a different route, saying it would lose credibility with its audience if it banned music that reflects the language of urban life. "We've got to speak their ... ...

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