California’s moment of reckoning on police accountability
August 24, 2020
California – a beacon of the future, icon of American promise and possibility, leading the way in everything from technology to environmental protection to music and the arts.
Also, California – stained by police abuses from the beating of Rodney King to the Rampart brutality scandal to forgotten tragedies like the death of Cal State Long Beach running back Ron Settles in custody of the notorious Signal Hill Police Department.