“I think at the time of the Rodney King beating it was easier to view it as an isolated incident or as a few bad apples,” says USC law professor Jody David Armour. “But now, over time, we see a persistent and pervasive pattern.”
A woman walks past a boarded up store in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday. Professor Jody David Armour says protesters today are more diverse and have more empathy than in 1992.Agustin Paullier/AFP via Getty Images
Both times the protests began in anger over police violence against black men — in 1992, when four police officers were acquitted of Armour, who has taught at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles since 1995, talked withInterview HighlightsThe protests and marches today you see are multiethnic, multicultural, even multigenerational. And the allyship is something that is more pronounced now than it perhaps once was. I think a lot of people, when they saw that video of George Floyd, who weren't in the black community, felt agony.
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