Rodney King was about police abuse, O. J. was about police incompetence, and Rampart is about police corruption. That's a pretty grim picture for the LAPD, ... What Rodney King taught us is you can't ignore the problems and hope they will go away.
Rodney King was about police abuse, O. J. was about police incompetence, and Rampart is about police corruption. That's a pretty grim picture for the LAPD, ... What Rodney King taught us is you can't ignore the problems and hope they will go away.
A professor is not one who knows, but one who professes to know, and thus is constantly in the position of inviting challenge.... He professes publicly where everyone is invited to come and challenge, and at any time he must be willing and able to defend it openly against all comers. The degree is originally a chivalric devicea gauntlet of defiance to all rivalsand not a safe rampart or dug-out for a scholar to hide behind in safe immunity from any challenge.
He usually swallows his rebounds or hands it off to the defense. The other night (against Rampart) he gave up a goal with 50 seconds left in the game, and it went into overtime. In the first shift of overtime, he made a great save, and we went back down and scored.
It looked like a pagan banner planted on a Christian rampart.
The King incident was a spontaneous reaction to a middle-of-the-night situation. I think Rampart is worse, ... Official Negligence How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD.
Music my rampart, and my only one.
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corpse to the rampart we hurried.
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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