please support Lamont at Large so he can buy a shirt with sleeves

@Roger-vz7ol

6 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@kellymcgrane2690

5 ай бұрын

🤣😅👍

Everybody remembers what happened to Rodney King. Nobody remembers what happened to Reginald Denny.

@robertmartin1269

6 ай бұрын

Yep, but that happened as a result of what happened to Rodney King FIRST…

@HankPanky

6 ай бұрын

@@robertmartin1269 That's doesn't make it any better.

@LivingForTMH

5 ай бұрын

We all know why..

@kellymcgrane2690

5 ай бұрын

@@HankPanky 🙏👍

@omaurioncouncil564

5 ай бұрын

It's showing 😂😂😂

My favorite collaboration team! I remember the Rodney King incident. I had family, that had just moved to Los Angeles, the week before the rioting. I remember Reginald Denney and seeing him pulled out of his truck on CNN. It was vicious! I think after 30 years, there hasn't been enough done to make a change, unfortunately. Incidentally, I had that same Sony Handycam. No matter the content, I always enjoy seeing you and Lamont collaborate on a story. Looking forward to more collaborations with the two of you. Thank you Chris.

@ds-pc7if

6 ай бұрын

Great video and leg work on the people involved

KZread is getting pathetic with the censoring. You can't show the word “covid 19” now?

My mom, little brother and I were at a Dodger game when the riots broke out. We were all oblivious to what was going on. There was an announcement that the 101 was closed and to use a different freeway to get home. Then we started smelling smoke. Once the game was over and we were heading down the hill, the whole of downtown was on fire. It was crazy. Once we got on the freeway, the smoke was so bad we could barely see. On tge radio they were talking about what had happened to Reginald and what was currently going on. I was so scared that we were going to get stopped and pulled out of our car and beat up. I will never forget that.

Thank you two for covering this historical moment! It’s a real pleasure to see both of you working together again! I can see you both doing a podcast together too! Thanks so much!

The best documentry I have seen about the LA riots is from the History channel, it's called "City on Fire" It has some things in it you have probably not seen before and it is graphic. Definetley worth the watch.😎

“ Mostly Peaceful Protest “

@amberlopez7477

6 ай бұрын

@FloridaMan69.

Ай бұрын

​@@amberlopez7477I'm your step dad

I try not to use the word hate, but I hate rioters. There is 0 excuse to destroy another humans property because you are upset. Do people call their local senators anymore? I’m 23 and it seems most people my age just turn to hate before actually trying to make a difference. This spoke magnitudes after the death of George Floyd. RIP to all lives that have been lost by the hands of evil people. And God bless those who spend their lives trying to make a difference. As always, thank you Chris, and Lamont. Your channels do us all a great justice.

@MobileInstinct

6 ай бұрын

Ive never understood why people destroy their own neighborhoods. Their own stores and schools.

@MonicaLitman

6 ай бұрын

I wonder how many of the 36 that died were African Americans 🤷🏻‍♀️

@a1gray1

6 ай бұрын

@@MobileInstinctthey were fed up of being the bottom class of society

@fredtaylor9792

6 ай бұрын

​@@MobileInstinctThe same reason protestors throw oil on mink coats and not on biker leathers.

@goodhumourwagon

6 ай бұрын

Solid logic if your an orangutan. @@a1gray1

Great to see Lamont with you! Thanks for the vid n have a great day.

Excellent video and another great duo on a video. No much has changed in all those years.

“Why cant we all just get along”

@Etaoinshrdlu69

6 ай бұрын

What the president said at the end of mars attacks before shaking hands with the Martian.

Thank you for sharing Chris.

Thank you Chris and Lamont for discussing this

Thank u both for sharing this video

Thank you , Chris ❤

I was miles away from where the riots were but could see and smell the smoke from the playground of the elementary school that I was going to. Very scary time for a 7 year old like myself wondering what the heck is going on and not understanding.

Five stars is what I give these videos with Lamont ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Thank you to both of you for covering another story.

Thanks guys

The best You Tubers around,thanks guys keep up the great work ❤

"As Rodney King knows, if the police have to come and get you, they're bringin' an ass kickin' with 'em." - Chris Rock

I like y’all’s colabs!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

What happened was extremely unfortunate, but you could argue that an 8-mile chase is resisting/passive resisting. Now that doesn't mean beat the guy to a pulp. Just bad policing.

@kyleranderson5557

6 ай бұрын

And bad citizenship too. He could have easily avoided what happened to him. Both parties are wrong here

@slimshadow49

6 ай бұрын

@@kyleranderson5557 absolutely. If he didn’t drink and drive this would never had happened.

Love your channels! And, this may be one of my favorites of yours! Thanks!

Why are we censoring COVID-19 ?

Excellent,thank you!😭💯💥👍!

Our world needs to be better. If you have done me wrong, I will dislike you but never would I beat or try to kill unless someone harmed my family. My son and step son are mixed and I love them with all of me. Kids learn hate from their parents. The world needs a lot more love in it.

Seeing the riots on tv and seeing people getting pulled out of cars scared me so much, I never wanted to set foot in LA after seeing that

@wendysmith8246

6 ай бұрын

Hey hey gogo to the nono 😊❤😊

@gokathygo

6 ай бұрын

@@wendysmith8246 hey Wendy

@gokathygo

6 ай бұрын

@@wendysmith8246hi Wendy, I love these collabs,

Good to see you two I follow Lamont and watch all his stuff

Thanks for the footage. This is the infamously reason why I'm so intrigued with the history of LA. thanks for the footage guys

U picked a heck of a time to come out with this one

Thanks mobile, safe travels

My favorite dynamic duo!

Wow I don’t think I have ever seen a current video about this story. Thank you

Chris and Lamont very well put together video! It's up to us as people to make this world a better place! But sometimes it is hard to do that when you have some people in higher places making it difficult to have better changes 🤔

Lovely video! Love the collabs with Lamont! I dont think things have changed much

I had a friend who was seven days from getting out of the Navy after 16 years. He worked as a recruiter at the LA recruiting office and left for home as the riots started. He turned on the TV just in time for Reginald Denny get trashed. A few minutes later, his CO called him and told him to report to the closest naval base in the morning. The recruiting office had been burned to the ground.

One of your best videos!! I didn't know a lot of the information you and Lamont was talking about. Like the guy that video taped the whole and the 4 people that saved the truckers life. Great job!!

As a Community, are we better, or worse? Society hasn't learned a damn thing! "Can't We All get along?"

Interesting

Thank you guys, so much of history slowly gets forgotten or altered into exaggerated events. I was there that year living in Norwalk in 7th grade when all that occurred. It was heartbreaking yes, later that year our mother moved us out of California and started 8th grade on in another state. It wasn't just because of this though, it was the state of CA period* (but I still miss it just can't afford to live there)

Nice Video! Chris 👌🌼🇮🇳🌼👌

Ohhh sht that’s my boy Lamont at Large right there 😂😂😂.

Thank for the refreshing my memory. Not alot has changed; it is unfortunate that we live in a society of where some people are Above The Law!

Denny lives in Arizona now and works as a boat mechanic. The “LA 4” the ones accused in his attack had quite an interesting history post-riots. In 1997, Damian Williams was released from prison early for good behavior, but in 2003, he was sentenced to 46 years to life in prison for the 2000 murder of drug dealer Grover Tinner. As of 2017, he is incarcerated at Centinela State Prison. Henry Watson was re-arrested and sentenced to three years for a narcotics conviction and, after his release, owned and operated a limousine service in Los Angeles. On February 1, 2004, Antoine Miller was shot outside of a Hollywood nightclub during an altercation and died in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on February 8 at the age of 31. Gary Williams, Henry Watson, and Damian Williams gave interviews about the riots for the 2017 documentary Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992.

I remember the day this happened. This did change the country somewhat.

what happened to the thugs that pulled reginald denny out of his truch, stomped his head and threw bricks at his head?

That’s Chris for revisiting this crime

Thank you for pointing out, while these men did use excessive force causing great bodily injury, King was not an angelic innocent person. He refused to comply with lawful orders continually. He was a big man and I can see his actions causing fear with the officers. Personally I believe the officers went too far and should have received some form of punishment. But let’s understand too that King was drunk speeding which put everyone on the road at risk. An all around terrible event! Not to mention what occurred in La afterwards

@Bobby-rq5pe

6 ай бұрын

Next Chris will do a video about how George Floyd was innocent lmao this channel sucks now

@adamclark9004

6 ай бұрын

There's a reason why you always hear about the rodney king and George floyd incidents but you never see a biography of them as people because they were both terrible people

@Bobby-rq5pe

6 ай бұрын

@@adamclark9004 I bet Chris flys BLM flags I should've expected it he sounds like an effeminate liberal really

@LoneStarMillennial

6 ай бұрын

@@Bobby-rq5pe I think he's doing the opposite, gingerly tip toeing around the PC medium and saying, hey, here is who King was and what he was doing, here is who halliday was and what he was doing, if he had minded his own business 50 people would've lived.

@Bobby-rq5pe

6 ай бұрын

@@LoneStarMillennial as long as he lies about the guy like he was some innocent person it's a useless video. Like the George Floyd case he was garbage too

I’m Holiday. I’m Tarraday. I’m ground hog day…he he he.

The richest person is not the one who has the most, but instead, the one who needs the least.

Yeah, people were outraged when they saw that video. The economic recession had bitten really hard, and tension, and tempers were really high in LA back then. It was scary. When the verdict came out on TV, and the cops got off, that was it! All hell broke loose, and everything went crazy, and that craziness spread like wildfire across the city.

That was a sad time.

I watched all on live t.v. ! It was bad , i couldnt understand the thugs dragging a truck driver out of his truck and try to kill him, it was bad ,disgusting and sickening and what they did to their own hometown😢

Props to the law enforcement

I don't think much has changed if anything at all, and sadly it probably never will. RIP to Rodney King and George Holliday. Thanks Chris!

Everything is worse now, IMO. I do miss the world before the internet though, the world felt smaller.

@Fcreceptor

6 ай бұрын

The internet has really been a ruination of the world.

You two need to do spahn ranch next

Certain people need accountability when they do wrong

I LOVE when you two collaborate! Great episode. I think race relations today are even worse than they were back then. We've gone backwards.

I dont get it, youtube will allow you to show pictures of a community burning down but wont show the photos of people that beat king or, in other videos, photos of caskets? what the heck is goin on youtube?

@DrQuagmire1

Ай бұрын

basically a "double standard" on KZread's part, obviously

This comment section is something. Wouldn’t expect anything less in 2024, tho.

Amazing vid, and its surprising how long ago that happened. The riots that followed the police attack shocked the world, no one saw something like that since the Watts riots and the Detroit riots 25+ years before. It also proved that police were overwhelmed, they could not deal with the looting, the shootings, the attacks on fire fighters who were trying to put out the fires. The shoot outs with the Korean store owners and the gangs...etc.

What human beings are capable of...

63 people died during the riots and over 2 thousand were injured

Society of all ages has gotten worse , hatred and negativity towards one another , regardless of race or beliefs, disgusting example of humans 😡

im kinda surprised you dont have more subs. seems like a 2 mil type channel

Hello! You asked at the end is our world better now? God made this qorld beautiful and perfect, then satan fell to earth, and it has been a mess ever since. The increased use of illegal drugs has greatly intensified bizarre, violent behavior. Add to that the horrible effects of alcohol abuse. Mr. King made the choice to drink too much, and drive way too fast caring little for the people he endangered. Praise God he didn't hit someone. He resisted arrest, and in his crazed condition, they certainly couldn't let him go, but I don't think they were trying to kill him. I have heard that the alcohol in his system and his heightened state of violence gave him a heart attack. I watched a video recently, and the coroner said their was no boot imprint on his neck. I'm so sorry he wasted his life with drugs.

Sargent Koon was a bad cop. Many folks who lived in Foothill Division learned this the hard way.

I remember how sick it was that reginald denny was paid off by the media to say he forgave all involved

@jdome658

5 ай бұрын

Proof?

How is seeing the cops who did it deemed sensitive???

It doesn't matter how fast he was going or how big he was or if he was on PCP which he wasn't these are just the excuses they used to justify excessive force he wasn't trying to get up he was moving because he was getting beating with clubs and being stomped on he was in unbelievable pain just like those maniacs who beat up that poor truck driver and hit him with a cinder block they were wrong also people forget the King incident happened a good year before the riots and if it wasn't for George Holliday taping it nobody would have never known about it just another black man getting violated by the police but it showed a lot of people in America and all over the world how the police will use excessive force and just claim they were " Resisting arrest " which once he was on the ground he clearly wasn't the tape showed that but of course they were acquitted anyway.

L.A what a hell hole!

Where I live not much has changed. When George Floyd died we had months of riots still and the city still hasn’t recovered.

No excuse for what the cops did but the rioters acted like animals with that trucker.

Wait, you have to censor out the rona? Lol

I like the channel but you should research stuff you do videos on beforehand and look at stuff before you talk about it. I really love the Queen Mary videos.

Well, twice as many people on earth. What do u think??? 😒😒

So, all that other crap was to sensitive for youtube but not the bloody truck driver?! This world is insane!!

Animals can’t help but being animals!

The moral of the story is he was drunk and driving super fast endangering many people and avoiding arrest so the police had to exercise more force and is was caught on a camera because the camera man was probably not a fan of authority so he filmed it and then everyone got stupid and the place went crazy! So he should have just not drove drunk and endanger people by speeding and all never would have happened!

Rodney king didnt beat himself

Worse society.

FJB and FRK!

I can tell you I got beaten with a flashlight by Downey PD and my cousin was hospitalized after being thumped with billy clubs by LACSD in the 80s but there was no camera's witnessing what happened to our white asses LoL. Me and my cousin may not have deserved what happened to us and Rodney King certainly didn't....However All three of us resisted arrest and in the 80s cops didn't play and I learned a valuable lesson and never resisted again . I do not agree with what happened to RD and others attacked during the riots or the looting. I used to drive home from work right by the burned out theaters and stores in the 80s that were from the 60s watts riot and always thought how terrible that kids didn't have a theater in their neighborhood because what people did 20 years before they were born. I understand frustration but in no way did either riot benefit the people that lived there especially the kids

Just 11 yrs old when all this went dwn. Ice Cube ,The Predator..help me understand.

Thanks for showing this video I remember this back then what a shame that so many people have died because of it Rip to Rodney king sleep well no more pain

After watching so many different beatings and learning about police corruption. This story doesn't even seem as bad as I remembers first hearing about it. That is how bad cops have fallen since then.

Thank you Chris and Lamont another eye opener The reason why we're talking about it is because we should never forget that's brutal incident change change the world I wish more people understood I knew where I was at on that day and it was horrible rest in peace Mr King you and your story is not forgotten God bless you

30 years is a generation and a half. So while we have the generation that grew up with this behavior and mindset still living on, continuing to think and act in the manner as before, and then the generation that came after, seeing this and realizing there needed to be a change. We still have that melting pot mix of both types of people still living today. George, bless him, became a pioneer of filming police brutality in action, of showing the public that yes, we can stand against the police force and show that they are not always the good guys in blue. Nowadays we have mobile phones with cams, we have more public cams in place, and we have the internet for instant sharing when something like this happens. We also have police body cams but time and time again has shown that those can be tampered with just as easily. I'd say that while the racial divide is still strong we have come forward from this with more knowledge and awareness. We have advanced technology that allows for anyone to become a George Holiday now-and sometimes that is all that is needed, just being there at the time and place with a camera-and standing against this social injustice, this racial injustice, this cycle of abuse. We're not better people, but we are more aware. We know that it's wrong and while there's plenty of people trying to move forward and build bridges of peace there are still too many holding us back from making that progression. I was ten when this happened and I lived in northern Cali at the time, on Treasure Island. I was attending school in San Francisco though, for my middle school, since the island only had an elementary on the base at the time. On the second day of my 6th Year I was jumped on the playground by a gang of 20-30ish black and latino kids for not other reason than being a white kid on their turf. Someone bashed the back of my head with a rock/brick and then I was thrown against a concrete wall. I was temporarily blinded but still conscious and luckily remained calm enough to not go into an asthma attack, for that truly would've been a death sentence for me then. I never understood why it happened, since I was so new there I didn't know names, nor was I going to point any out because I didn't want further backlash for being a snitch. I went the rest of that school year as a honor roll student, member of the book reading club, and tried out for track but just couldn't keep endangering myself with it. All and all it was a great school and then I moved out of state but I'll never forget that day and the weeks that followed as I recovered. It was a case of reverse racism, on an innocent target, and it could have very well killed me. And all for what? Are we any better now?

161st

It was excessive force all around: from the cops and from the rioters.

RIP Mr King Things are WORSE...they're more organized now

He "parked" his car because he was finally stopped because of a road block after a 7 mile chase! Yes, it was a mean looking video. Rodney King did all he could to make this happen. I'm not saying he deserved all 56 wacks to the body like that, but he did all he could to make this happen. After what he did to the people of California Rodney King should have been ashamed of himself. If I tried anything like what he did that night the police would probably have killed me and called it justifiable. All I'm trying to say to you people is put your pity and compassion where it is deserved to be.

I remember watching it all unfold on tv and my dad making unsavory comments. At 15, I realized that the world was an unsafe place and my dad was garbage... Here we are, 30+ years later and not much has really changed.

Now this is aye prime example I don't visit LA no more place is crazy with nut cases lol

Worse!!

When I first saw the thumbnail, I was a little afraid because of how terribly painful the whole Rodney King beating was -it exposed the lines in society about racial issues, the violence at the hands of police, people were judging Mr. King-as if doling out physical violence was acceptable, cops playing judge, jury and executioners - it is a miracle that he wasn't shot. Two wrongs do not make a right. Mr. King - even though he broke laws - was still entitled to rights as a citizen to be arrested, booked, etc.. Without being beaten severely on the street. This situation was the perfect storm of idiocy. My God.

Riots should have been about why why King was out on the streets to begin with. Fun facts that are often left out: he was DUI and the CHP noticed King's car speeding on the freeway. They pursued King with lights and sirens, and the pursuit reached 117 mph, while King refused to pull over. King would later say he fled the police hoping to avoid a DUI charge and the parole violation that could follow. The pursuit continued through residential streets at speeds ranging from 55 to 80mph, and through at least one red light. Several police cars and a police helicopter had joined in the pursuit. After approximately 8 miles, officers cornered King in his car. During the three-hour sentencing hearing, US District Judge John G. Davies accepted much of the defense version of the beating. He strongly criticized King, who, he said, provoked the officers' initial actions. Davies said that only the final six or so baton blows by Powell were unlawful. The first 55 seconds of the videotaped portion of the incident, during which the vast majority of the blows were delivered, was within the law because the officers were attempting to subdue a suspect who was resisting efforts to take him into custody. Davies found that King's provocative behavior began with his "remarkable consumption of alcoholic beverage" and continued through a high-speed chase, refusal to submit to police orders and an aggressive charge toward Powell. Davies made several findings in support of the officers' version of events. He concluded that Officer Powell never intentionally struck King in the head, and "Powell's baton blow that broke King's leg was not illegal because King was still resisting and rolling around on the ground, and breaking bones in resistant suspects is permissible under police policy." Mitigation cited by the judge in determining the length of the prison sentence included the suffering the officers had undergone because of the extensive publicity their case had received, high legal bills that were still unpaid, the impending loss of their careers as police officers, their higher risks of abuse while in prison, and their undergoing two trials. The judge acknowledged that the two trials did not legally constitute double jeopardy, but raised "the specter of unfairness".