Ice Cube: The Face of the Riots

All four officers involved in the Rodney King case were acquitted at trial. Within hours of that decision, riots raged across Los Angeles. Ice Cube said America looks at black men in two ways: nice and bad. George H.W vehemently denounced Cop Killer as obscene on his album Body Count.

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