It was 30 years ago in Los Angeles. White police officers were acquitted after beating up a black motorist. A court decision violently denounced in the street: six days of rioting in total. And today ? The news still shows us regularly that the problems of racism remain very present in American society. Trials like 30 years ago still take place even if some things have changed.
“Today the prosecutors do not hesitate to indict the police officers who are found guilty of violence, which was not the case before, analyzes, François Durpaire, historian and specialist in the United States. Where 30 years ago juries were pretty much all white, today juries are 50/50 black and white.”
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