WEBVTT - Insurrection (uncensored) 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:05.480 This is Red Pilled America. 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:09.240 Before we start the show, just a reminder to share, like, 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:11.799 and subscribe to this podcast wherever you're listening to it, 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:14.360 and please give us a five star rating. It helps 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:16.640 us beat the big tech algorithm. Also, if you love 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:20.319 Red Pilled America, please consider becoming a backstage subscriber. You'll 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:23.479 have access to our entire back catalog of episodes. Just 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:26.799 visit Redpilled America dot com and click support in the topmenu. 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:29.080 That's Red Pilled America dot com and click support in 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:31.920 the topmenu. Support what you love or it goes away. 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:37.240 This episode was originally broadcast on June sixth, twenty twenty. 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:42.159 America appears to be on the brink of war with itself. 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:45.280 Overnight, Minneapolis on fire. 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:50.680 There's a fire. 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:53.360 It does appear that that fire is the police station. 0:00:57.200 --> 0:00:59.800 Chaos filled Minneapolis streets for a fourth night. 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:02.040 I have nowhere to go now. 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:06.320 This country is on fire. We are facing an insurrection 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:09.080 by people, but we don't quite understand who they are, 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:13.200 but by all indications, they are violent leftists thunks. 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:16.840 The death of George Floyd triggered riots all across America, 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:21.640 which begs a previously unthinkable question is America headed towards 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:27.360 civil war. I'm Patrick Carrelchi. 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:29.520 And I'm Adriana Portez, and this is. 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:32.240 Red Pilled America, a storytelling show. 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:35.880 This is not another talk show covering the day's news. 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:37.920 We are all about telling stories. 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:41.600 Stories. Hollywood doesn't want you to hear stories. 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:46.560 The media mocks stories about everyday Americans that the globalists ignore. 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:49.920 You could think of Red Pilled America as audio documentaries, 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:59.760 and we promise only one thing, the truth. Welcome to 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:12.600 Red Pilled America. It's becoming harder and harder to find 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:18.200 words to describe the turmoil of our time. In just 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:20.880 the first half of twenty twenty, we saw a pointless 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:23.800 coup attempt on our president based on a hoax. We 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:26.560 watched as our leaders shut down the American economy and 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:30.079 call us Grandma killers if we protested, and we witnessed 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:33.480 our cities burn, businesses be destroyed, and innocent people get 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:36.359 killed over the tragic death of George Floyd, a man 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:38.320 that once pointed a gun to the stomach of a 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:42.240 black woman and robbed her in a home invasion. America 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:44.760 is becoming unstable and there seems to be no end 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:47.880 in sight for people that despise fear porn. As we do, 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:52.000 we must admit an uncomfortable question is rising to the surface. 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:56.040 Is America headed towards civil war? To find the answer, 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:57.680 we're going to follow the story of one of the 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:01.359 biggest moments of social unrest in American history and see 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:03.000 what it tells us about the conflict of the Tay 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:20.560 and what we will need to do to stop it. 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:24.639 The idea that civilization would just stop was kind of alien, 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:26.040 but it did. 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:29.079 That's Kurt Schlickter, a trial lawyer and author of the 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:32.560 Kelly Turnbull series of novels with today's hints of a 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:36.240 very different America on the horizon. Kurt's work of dystopian 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:39.760 fiction seems almost prophetic, and that might be because he 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:42.560 was actually on the front lines of an apocalypse of sorts. 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:46.480 I remember one cop in tears because shit was falling apart. 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:48.280 We're gonna have to shoot people. We're gonna have to 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:56.080 shoot people. I'm like, Serge, get your shit together. Shit 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:59.360 was falling apart, and it can happen, and it happens 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:00.520 so fucking fast. 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:04.520 The apocalypse that Kurt lived through went down quickly. The 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:06.800 city went from normal to chaos in a matter of 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:09.280 just a few hours, and it would grow to become 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:12.360 one of the biggest cases of social unrest in American history. 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:16.000 The drug first entered the American bloodstream on a Tuesday 0:04:16.039 --> 0:04:19.600 in March nineteen ninety one, when a shocking video exploded 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:21.000 into the news cycle. 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:23.120 Story that might never have surfaced if someone hadn't picked 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:25.600 off his home video camera. We've all seen the pictures 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:28.360 of Los Angeles police officers beating a man they had 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:29.080 just pulled over. 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:33.200 The video, saturating news reports showed several police officers hitting 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:35.960 a black man with batons, with about a dozen other 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:37.719 LAPD officers watching on. 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:42.000 The three police officers facing felony criminal charges who were 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:44.800 among a group of fifteen who stopped a twenty five 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:47.920 year old black man last Saturday night, then beat him, 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:51.520 kicked him, and clubbed him, unaware that an amateur photographer 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:53.800 was recording the incident on videotape. 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:57.480 Against a growing Nashville fure over last weekend's police beating 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:00.560 of an unarmed black motorist, Los Angeles Police Chief Darrel 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.640 Gates said today that all fourteen officers in involved will 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:06.799 be disciplined and the three will face criminal charges. 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:14.080 The officers we believe used excessive force in taking him 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:18.640 into custody. In our review, we find that the officers 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:23.800 struck him with batons between fifty three and fifty six times. 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:26.160 The Rodney King beating, as it came to be known, 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.159 was a brutal show of force against a black man 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:32.080 that appeared to be helplessly taking the blows on the pavement. 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:35.000 Prior to his release from jail last night, twenty five 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:38.840 year old Rodney King showed his injury to reporters, the bruises, 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:41.680 broken legs, and the scars from the stun gun which 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:44.040 kilded him with fifty thousand bolt shocks. 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:48.760 I could say, after the first three good licks with 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:52.680 you know, one with that with the shocker, and the 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:57.560 next with the billy club across the face, I was scared. 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:00.160 I was scared. I was scared for my life. 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:04.000 King claims, and several witnesses support him that he never resisted. 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:07.599 I kneeled to my knees and spread my hands out 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:10.360 and hit the ground and slow as I could, because 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:13.520 I didn't want to make any stupid moves, because I'm 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:16.040 already wondering, like, I mean, why are these guys, why 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:17.320 they'd drawn down on me. 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.360 What kinds of things did you hear from the officers? 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:22.400 Did you hear any kind of slurs? 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:22.599 Though? 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:25.560 What do you mean what slurs? 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:27.680 Were there any kind of racial comments made at all? 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:31.120 Oh, Rachel, No, I didn't know. I didn't hear it. 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:35.279 You can cut this from the tape if you want. 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:38.960 But Rod's family has made it very clear that they're 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:43.280 not looking to turn this into a racial crusade. 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:53.440 I would hope the public would not on the basis 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:55.800 of this one tape make up their minds about the 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:57.600 Los Angeles Police Department. 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:00.799 But people did judge the LAPD, and the near unanimous 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:04.000 consensus was outrageity hold answer. 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:07.719 Since the graphic home video of the beating gained national attention, 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:10.240 Los Angeles City Hall and the police department have been 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:13.400 under siege, thousands of telephone calls that some. 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:15.400 Just said they don't believe it. 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:18.120 This is like the Nazi days. 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:20.239 And in Dallas, all police have been ordered to watch 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:23.160 the video as an instructional trait on how not to 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:26.200 behave in order from the new chief of Police just 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:28.520 two weeks ago was a member of the Los. 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:31.400 Angeles forts The tape picture itself, I mean that is 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:36.560 outrageous behavior. It's a gross misconduct by the police officers, 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:39.160 probably criminal misconduct. 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:41.120 But the people that spit the most fire were the 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:42.520 local civil rights leaders. 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:47.160 We the man and we said the man that chief 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:48.240 gates be five. 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:55.240 I have no, absolutely no thoughts of resigning. Please let 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:57.880 all my friends out there know who think this is 0:07:57.920 --> 0:07:58.400 the time. 0:07:58.960 --> 0:07:59.800 I'm not going. 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:03.840 The video sparked a furious national debate about police brutality, 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:06.640 one that seemed new to the broader gen X population, 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:09.440 but to old time Angelinos it was a subject that 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:13.280 was heating up for years. A quarter of a century earlier. 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:16.640 In August nineteen sixty five, the issue of police brutality 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:19.360 went from a local issue to national news after a 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:22.200 routine traffic stop quickly evolved into chaos. 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:25.120 It began, as many race riots have begun, with the 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:28.640 arrest of a Negro by white officers. In this case, 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:32.440 two young Negroes were stopped by California Highway patrolman and 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:35.920 charged with drunk driving. There was a scuffle and a 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:36.720 crowd gathered. 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:37.920 The mother of the. 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:41.200 Two they are brothers, joined in, and she and another 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:44.600 woman the crowd thought was pregnant, were pushed and shoved. 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:49.000 The confrontation escalated from there until complete anarchy took over Watts, 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:51.720 a subdivision of the Los Angeles area later known as 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:54.760 South Central. The writing took what would become a familiar 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:57.920 turn when black residents went to the streets and began 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:03.000 attacking any whites that they came across. 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:07.520 It was the most widespread, most destructive racial violence in 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:11.480 American history. White people driving through the Riot area were 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:12.520 considered fair. 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:15.319 Game, whether young or old, men or women. 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:20.760 Where cars were battered, the driver's stoned, kicked and beaten, 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:22.720 and the cars were burned. 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:24.360 The mobs might. 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:27.280 Groan and curse in disappointment when a white got away, 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:30.680 and then cheer like a football crowd when a car 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:36.120 went up in flame. The burning and looting, the shooting 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:38.120 and beating went on for nearly a week. 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:40.720 A black Wats resident that torched some of the neighborhood 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:43.760 buildings explained to a news reporter at the time how 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:45.880 and why he burned down a local store. 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:48.280 He took me on a tour of some of the 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:51.720 places he said he helped to burn as casual as 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:52.720 a stroll in the park. 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:55.920 I threw the firebomb right in the front window right 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:58.400 in the front window. A friend of mine went in 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:00.920 the store towards the bag and threw a firebomb in 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:03.560 the bag, and the place went up and flang, But 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:08.360 it was pretty well emptied by the loots and so forth. 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:11.360 But most things were taken out before you burn as 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:11.880 much as we. 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:15.080 Could possibly give. Then we would decide to burn, and 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:17.640 to cry in the streets, was burn, baby, burn? 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:20.360 Why would you burn out this kind of place? 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:23.000 We decided to burn this store because we felt that 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:25.600 this man hadn't be doing nothing in gaming on us anyway. 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:28.280 A local civil rights lawyer at the time argued that 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:30.960 the Wats riots broke out because the locals had no 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:33.880 other way to get their voices heard about what they 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:35.920 saw as rampant police brutality. 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:40.120 A complaint of police brutality by any Negro citizen goes 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:41.720 almost completely. 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:44.680 Unheeded, But a government commission investigated the plight of black 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:48.160 Americans and cited a different cause for turmoil in their communities. 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:52.200 Daniel one Ahan, until this summer Assistant Secretary of Labor, 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:54.800 was in charge of the study and was staggered by it. 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:58.960 Monahan says the Negro family structure is collapsing and we 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:01.040 asked him the reasons. 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:07.080 We have had thirty five years of disastus unemployment for 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:08.040 the negro of Mayle. 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:10.440 He has never gotten over the depression. 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:13.280 He had four fair years, fair in the middling years 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:13.440 in the. 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:15.240 Second World War, and maybe a good year in the 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:15.800 Korean War. 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:16.640 And that's it. 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:20.480 So serious and explosive is the situation, says the Commission, 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:23.560 that unless it is checked, the August Riots may be 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:26.760 only a curtain raiser to what could blow up one 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:27.640 day in the future. 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:34.600 In nineteen seventy three, and what appeared to be a 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:38.480 response to the black community's frustrations, the predominantly white city 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:40.400 of Los Angeles elected a new mayor. 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.920 Thomas Bradley was sworn in today as mayor of Los Angeles, 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:46.280 the largest city in this country ever to have a 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:50.000 black mayor. Bradley was elected in late May, even though 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:53.319 blacks make up only eighteen percent of Los Angeles' population. 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:56.200 Bradley is a former policeman and the son of a 0:11:56.360 --> 0:12:00.400 Texas sharecropper. He says becoming mayor of Los Angeles was 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:02.120 his impossible dream. 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:05.160 A lawyer and a former police officer, councilman, Tom Brady 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:07.400 became the city's first African American mayor. 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:11.400 I'm proud of our victory, but more importantly, I'm. 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:11.720 Proud of you. 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:14.880 I'm proud of what this city was able to do 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:27.160 on May twenty ninth. Your rejection of those issues that 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:31.280 were irrelevant to the campaign, your rejection of the appeals 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:35.520 to racial prejudice, will serve as an historic monument to 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:37.439 the political process in this country. 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:42.200 Tonight there will be a large inaugural ball and that 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:46.600 will end the festivities tomorrow morning. The harsh realities, the 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:49.840 harsh realities for Tom Bradley of governing the nation's third 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:50.559 largest city. 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:54.480 Five years later, in nineteen seventy eight, Mayor Bradley hired 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:57.600 Darryl Gates as Los Angeles Police Chief, and he took 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:02.960 the position at a critical time the city of Angels 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:07.400 plunging into hell. Drugs were pouring in and violence quickly followed. 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:10.679 From nineteen sixty to nineteen eighty, their murder rate in 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:17.160 the area increased by over six hundred percent. Much of 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:20.320 the mayhem was happening in south central, a patch of 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:23.240 land south of the ten Freeway straddling the one to 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:26.760 ten Freeway, an area that included Watts. It was known 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:29.400 as one of the most dangerous enclaves in California, if 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:32.760 not the entire United States. By the early nineteen eighties, 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:35.600 gang violence exploded in the Ala Borough and the crack 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:39.000 cocaine epidemic that fueled the chaos was ripping the city apart, 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:42.800 forcing a heavier and heavier police presence. As the nineteen 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.600 eighty four Olympics approached, there was a national desire to 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:48.880 clean up the war zones before the world's eyes descended 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:52.240 on the city, so Chief Darrel Gates began sweeping the area. 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:56.080 When the games ended, the influx of drugs continued unabated, 0:13:56.480 --> 0:14:00.640 so Chief Gates enacted Operation Hammer, a law enforcement campaign 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:02.839 to try and get the drug trade and violence on 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:03.559 a control. 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:06.600 They sell the rock cocaine or crack on the streets 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:10.240 or from heavily fortified rock houses, often employing eleven and 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:14.040 twelve year olds known as peewee's. These apprentices are used 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:17.720 as lookouts, sometimes even as salesmen. Young boys can make 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.440 more than four hundred dollars a day selling drugs. 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:23.640 We have gangs that are taking out of the city 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:25.920 of Los Angeles about a million dollars a week. 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:29.000 The gangs have carved up parts of Los Angeles into 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:33.240 exclusive sales territories, even using graffiti on walls to mark 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:36.480 their domain and warn others to stay away. But like 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:40.280 any successful businesses, they still compete for market share, often 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:44.360 with violent consequences. Some three hundred eighty seven people died 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:47.800 here in gang related violence last year. This year, the 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:49.640 death toll is running even higher. 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:50.880 It's getting worse. 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:51.720 It's not getting better. 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:56.000 Police are trying to make it better with special sweeps 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:59.760 arresting hundreds of suspected gang members. They've even rolled out 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:03.520 an armored battering ram to attack fortified crack houses. 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:07.840 This effort reached a height in April nineteen eighty eight, 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:11.880 when over a single weekend, almost fifteen hundred people were 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:15.840 arrested by one thousand officers. The heavy policing in the 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:19.960 area created even more tension between South Central's predominantly black 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:24.360 community and the LAPD charged with enforcing the law. This 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:27.480 was the environment that gripped Los Angeles when the LAPD 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:30.200 came across Rodney King's speeding vehicle. 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:34.240 To everyone that saw the Rodney King beating on the news, 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:37.200 the case against the officers appeared to be a slam 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:40.640 dunk The video set it all and seemed so convincing 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:43.440 that the public already made its verdict long before the 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:46.800 evidence was presented in trial. But the incident was far 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:49.880 more complicated than the media was portraying, and that was 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:52.680 largely because of what went on that night in March 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:57.120 nineteen ninety one before the amateur videographer hit the record button. 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:01.560 A fact at marbaur At. 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:04.000 A little after midnight on that SiGe Saturday night, two 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:07.400 California Highway Patrol officers, a husband and wife team named 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:10.640 Melanie and Timothy Singer, were driving down the two ten 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:13.800 freeway when they witnessed a Hundai Excel in their rear 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:17.360 view mirror traveling at a high velocity. So they exited 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:20.400 a freeway off ramp and then immediately re entered the freeway, 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:22.200 following the car to gauge at speed. 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:25.080 And as I reached the bottom of the heel down 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:27.680 on the bottom of some one itself, my vehicle was 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:30.960 reading on the display at one hundred and fifteen and 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:33.240 bouncing about one hundred fifteen one hundred and seventeen miles 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:33.640 per hour. 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:37.960 That's then CHP Officer Melanie Singer. The officers flipped on 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:41.280 their sirens and flashing red lights, and through the loudspeaker 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:45.160 ordered the driver, Rodney King, to pull over. But he wouldn't, 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:49.040 and why well, he knew he shouldn't have been behind 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:52.920 the wheel. You see, that evening, Rodney King and his 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:55.840 two friends were having a bit too much fun. The 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:58.560 three were sucking down eight balls the street name four 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:01.360 forty ounce bottles of old English eight hundred malt liquor. 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:04.400 They weren't doing much of it anything really. They hung 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:06.920 out at a park, chilled out in King's wife's car, 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:09.240 moved it over to one of their mom's houses, where 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:11.960 they continued to drink. By the time King was caught 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:14.959 speeding down the two ten freeway, he had the equivalent 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:17.719 of roughly a case of malt liquor in his system, 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:21.959 or twenty four to twelve ounce cans, and he was 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:25.440 on his way to buy more. In other words, King 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:29.760 was driving drunk, very drunk. But that wasn't his only issue. 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:33.560 He was also on probation for a robbery conviction. A 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:36.359 little over a year earlier, Rodney King walked into an 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:39.560 East LA store, pulled out an iron bar from his coat, 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:42.920 and told the Korean store owner to open the cash register. 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:46.080 He took the cash without resistance, but when King went 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:48.400 for the checks, the store owner grabbed a rod from 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:51.159 the floor and began to hit him. King dropped his 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:54.000 bar and grabbed a pole and hit the store owner, 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:56.920 then fled with two hundred dollars cash. A week and 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:59.800 a half later, he was arrested, charged, and sentenced to 0:17:59.840 --> 0:18:03.520 two years in prison. He served a year. Three months 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:06.480 after that, he found himself speeding drunk down the two 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:09.200 ten Freeway with the highway patrol hot on his tail. 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:13.280 Long story short, King wouldn't pull over because driving drunk 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:15.560 would have been a violation of his parole and he 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:18.400 didn't want to go back to jail. With King now 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:21.480 making a run for it, the CHP officers called for help, 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:24.520 and units from the Los Angeles Police Department joined in 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:29.479 on the pursuit, including an LAPD helicopter buzzing overhead. One 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:32.760 of the passengers in the car, a longtime friend of King's, 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:35.679 begged him to pull over, but King ignored his pleas 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:40.080 As the chase continued, the passenger began to panic and 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:42.520 a crazy thought briefly entered his mind. 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:44.879 At one time, I wanted to jump out the car 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:45.840 if I didn't want to do that. 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:52.919 Rodney King's state of mind even scared his old friend. 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:58.960 King eventually exited the freeway, attempting to ditch the police 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:00.159 on residential streets. 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:04.640 Alive a failed to the. 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:06.359 He ran a red light, nearly causing an accident, and 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:08.879 hid a speed of eighty miles per hour in a 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:11.640 thirty five mile per hour zone. 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:14.640 Were forward to the beginning, but I got it turn 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:16.200 around and again. 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:23.600 After about eight miles and nowhere else to go, he 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:26.840 pulled over across from an apartment complex near the entrance 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:29.760 of a park. Now stopped on the side of the road. 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:34.240 CHP Officer Timothy Singer ordered everyone out of the car 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:37.920 until lie face down on the ground. The two passengers 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:42.639 complied that Rodney King remained in the car. Melanie Singer 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:45.720 was the first to approach the vehicle. She ordered King 0:19:45.880 --> 0:19:48.919 out again, and this time he did, but when he 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:53.040 got out, he ignored her command. Instead, he placed his 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:55.480 hands on the roof of the vehicle and began acting 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:56.280 a bit defiant. 0:19:56.760 --> 0:19:58.520 When he placed his hands on the roof of the car, 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:02.840 the helicopter was overhead. He then looked like he was 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:06.280 saying something inside the car. Then pointed up at the 0:20:06.280 --> 0:20:09.080 helicopter itself and began to wave at the helicopter with 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:12.000 his right hand, with his left hand still on the 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:13.600 top of the roof of the car. He was waving 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:18.280 and smiling. After he had begun to wave at the helicopter, 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:21.160 my partner yelled at him. I told you get back 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:22.919 from the car, get your hands where I can see him, 0:20:22.960 --> 0:20:23.960 get yourself on the ground. 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:27.520 But Officer Singer said, King still wouldn't get on the ground. 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:31.720 When he moved away from the car, he dropped both 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:34.840 of his arms away from the car, down to his 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:39.240 sides and turned his body almost in a north direction, 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:42.000 away to where his left side was now facing me, 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:44.800 to where I could not see his right hand. At 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:47.760 that time, I withdrew my weapon pointed it at the 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:50.840 suspect or the driver told him to get his hands 0:20:50.880 --> 0:20:52.600 away from his butt I could not see where his 0:20:52.600 --> 0:20:57.080 hand was, and at that time he turned his complete 0:20:57.320 --> 0:20:59.919 body around where his rear end was facing me. He 0:20:59.960 --> 0:21:02.440 grabbed his right buttck with his right hand and shook 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:02.840 it at me. 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:09.440 Now this was a problem. Rodney King was a two 0:21:09.560 --> 0:21:12.440 hundred and twenty five pound six foot three inch tall 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:15.680 young man that tried running from the police, taking them 0:21:15.720 --> 0:21:18.040 on a high speed chase that reached upwards up one 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:20.919 hundred and fifteen miles per hour. He was sweaty and 0:21:21.000 --> 0:21:24.720 clearly acting under the influence of something, and most troubling, 0:21:24.960 --> 0:21:29.960 even at gunpoint, he wasn't complying. The stage was set 0:21:30.000 --> 0:21:33.320 for a disaster, and a disaster was about to happen 0:21:33.960 --> 0:21:40.119 more after the break, rough Greens has given our dogs 0:21:40.200 --> 0:21:43.880 new life. We've got three very different dogs in our house. Pablo, 0:21:43.960 --> 0:21:46.639 our English bulldog, Willow our bull Mastive, and Daisy are 0:21:46.720 --> 0:21:49.680 tiny but mighty Chihuahua. So trust me when I say 0:21:50.000 --> 0:21:52.159 we notice when something actually works. 0:21:52.400 --> 0:21:56.680