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1993 Allman Bros guitarist Dickey Betts arrested for shoving 2 cops

1993 Rodney King in court says he thinks he heard cops yell racial slurs

1992 4 cops in Rodney King beating case indicted on civil rights charge

1992 5 New York City cops arrested in Hauppauge Long Island for selling cocaine

1992 100th episode of "Cops" airs on Fox

1992 Jury selection begins in the Los Angeles cops beating Rodney King case

1983 Cops beat to death Michael Stewart for graffiting New York City subway

1972 Grace Slick maced by police when a band official called cops, pigs

1970 Black Panthers confront cops in Philadelphia (1 cop killed)

1970 Cops kill 2 students in racial disturbance (Jackson State U, Miss)

1970 Race riots in Augusta Georgia; 6 blacks killed (5 by cops)

1968 Race riot in Cleveland, 11 including 3 cops killed

1966 Charles Whitman, former marine, kills 13 at University of Texas, shot by cops

1965 Rodney King, born in Sacramento, California, black motorist beaten by LA cops

1960 Mack Sennett, director/producer (Keystone Cops), dies

1938 New York City Mayor LaGuardia assigns 21 cops to patrol subway

1933 Kansas City Massacre: 1 FBI agent, 4 cops and 1 gangster killed by mob

1912 Mark Sennet presents 1st Keystone Cops film (Cohen Collects a Debt)

1892 George "Slim" Summerville, U.S. actor, Keystone Cops

1884 Cops arrest John L Sullivan in 2nd round for being "cruel"


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