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    The L.A. Riots | 5. The System

    The L.A. Riots | 5. The System

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    The L.A. Riots | 5. The System

    FromSlow Burn

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    Length:
    46 minutes
    Released:
    Dec 8, 2021
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    A year after they were caught on tape beating Rodney King, four LAPD officers went on trial. None were convicted. 
    How did the prosecution make its case against the cops? How did the officers hold up under questioning? And what happened when the verdict was announced? 
    Season 6 of Slow Burn is produced by Joel Anderson, Jayson De Leon, Ethan Brooks, Sophie Summergrad, and Jasmine Ellis. 
    Mixing by Merritt Jacob.
    To listen to these interviews in full, learn more about the making of this season, skip all the ads, and support Slow Burn, sign up for Slate Plus now. It's only $1 for your first month.
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    Released:
    Dec 8, 2021
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    In the late 1980s and early 1990s, a white supremacist became an American political phenomenon. David Duke’s rise to power and prominence—his election to the Louisiana legislature, and then his campaigns for the U.S. Senate and the governorship—was an existential crisis for the state and the nation. The fourth season of Slate’s Slow Burn will explore how a Nazi sympathizer and former Klansman fashioned himself into a mainstream figure, and why some voters came to embrace his message. It will also examine how activists, journalists, and ordinary citizens confronted Duke’s candidacy, and what it took to stop him.