Good morning, Whitewater.
Midweek in town will be partly sunny, with a high of sixty-three, and a one-third chance of afternoon showers. Sunrise is 5:50 and sunset 7:53, for 14h 02m 47s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 80.9% of its visible disk illuminated.
About twenty years ago, on this day in 1992, America saw riots in Los Angeles even more destructive than the recent one in Baltimore. Here’s how the New York Times covered the news of acquittals in the beating of Rodney King, and its aftermath:
Los Angeles Policemen Acquitted In Taped Beating
By Seth Mydans
Special to The New York Times
RELATED HEADLINES
Storm of Anger Erupts — National Guard is Called Into CitySimi Valley, Calif., April 29 — Four Los Angeles police officers were acquitted of assault today in the videotaped beating of a black motorist that stunned the nation. The verdicts immediately touched off a storm of anger and scattered violence in the city.
As residents set scores of fires, looted stores and beat passing motorists in the downtown area and pockets of predominantly black south-central Los Angeles, Mayor Tom Bradley declared a state of emergency, and Gov. Pete Wilson said he would send in the National Guard.
After hearing seven weeks of detailed testimony and studying the 81-second amateur videotape of the beating, the jury concluded that the policemen, all of whom are white, had not broken any laws when they clubbed and kicked the mostly prone motorist, Rodney G. King.
It was deadlocked on one of the 11 charges, and the prosecution said it might seek a new trial on that charge, which affected only one defendant.
The beating last spring, with its kicks and its 56 baton swings, was shown over and over on television. It immediately became one of the most visible uses of force by police in this country’s history and put the issue of police brutality on the national agenda.
Immediately after the verdicts, an unusually impassioned Mayor Bradley appeared on television to appeal for calm in a city where the videotape has come to symbolize complaints about police brutality, racism and street violence.
‘Today the system failed us,’ the Mayor said.
Here’s Wednesday’s game from Puzzability, in its Giving Away the Ending series:
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This Week’s Game — April 27-May 1
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Giving Away the Ending
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You’ll need to do a little detective work this week. For each day, we started with the title of a well-known mystery book and replaced all the letters in each word—except the last letter—with asterisks.
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Example:
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A ****Y *N ******T
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Answer:
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A Study in Scarlet
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What to Submit:
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Submit the book title (as “A Study in Scarlet” in the example) for your answer.
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Wednesday, April 29
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