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Rodney King Dead at 47
Excerpt from: Rodney King Dead at 47
Twenty-one years ago I was in high school when the video of Rodney King being beaten by members of the LAPD made international news.I had already been following news stories about racist groups in Canada and the United States. The Heritage Front had started making headlines and was fast becoming the most influential hate groups Canada had experienced since the Saskatchewan Klan of the 1920s. In Saskatchewan, Carney Nerland of the Aryan Nations had just killed a First Nations trapper, Leo LaChance (he would later be convicted of manslaughter). In...Published By: Anti-Racist Canada - Sunday, 17 June, 2012