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The Original NPR Report On Rodney King
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Twenty-five years after the beating of Rodney King, we rebroadcast the first NPR report on March 8, 1991, about the incident.
Reporter Ina Jaffe tells the NPR audience what happened in Los Angeles, foreshadowing the debate over police procedures that followed.
A special thanks to NPR librarian Sarah Knight for retrieving this audio.
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- Ina Jaffe, correspondent for NPR. She tweets @InaJaffeeNPR.
This segment aired on March 3, 2016.