Twilight

Twilight Twilight Rodney King was beaten and arrested on March 3, 1991. The police pulled him over for a traffic violation and had him chained up and beat him until there really wasn’t much left of him. He had to have several surgeries just to make him look close to himself again. With the beating he had to be in a wheelchair and couldn’t ever feel the same about himself again. A resident of a nearby apartment captured the beating on videotape and gave it to CNN and other stations, and it was seen beyond the world. The four police men that beat him, who were white, went to trial and were acquitted. Many people were astonished by the verdict. This verdict caused some of the worst riots in the United States since the 1960’s. In Anna Deavere Smith’s, Twilight, she uses short stories to tell about incidents that have happened in Los Angeles. In these stories you hear about beatings, the riots throughout the city, and the buildings being burnt down. On May 3, 1992 there had been fifty-eight deaths, 2,353 injuries, more than 7,000 fire responses, 12,111 arrests, and 3,100 businesses people, very, about, smith, los, angeles, know, kids, together, riots, powerful, positive, make, daryl, city, stop, maxine, lot, elaine, don’t, community, committed, change, work, waters, three, think, tell, police, out, lives, good, being, area, across