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...POTOMAC, MD LIKE SIMI VALLEY--the Los Angeles suburb where a jury acquitted the four police officers accused in the Rodney King beating--Potomac is a suburban paradise...

Author: By Kenneth A. Katz, | Title: The New Justice | 6/2/1992 | See Source »

...Simi Valley residents--like their suburban soulmates in Potomac--are proud to say their community is not tainted by the problems of the city, like gang violence and homelessness...

Author: By Kenneth A. Katz, | Title: The New Justice | 6/2/1992 | See Source »

...suburbanite like me, all these similarities beg the question: What if the whole Rodney King affair had occurred in the D.C. area rather than in L.A.? What if white D.C. cops had been videotaped beating a Black motorist? What if the trial had been moved from D.C. to Potomac, as it was from L.A. to Simi Valley...

Author: By Kenneth A. Katz, | Title: The New Justice | 6/2/1992 | See Source »

...skin, my suburban background and my community's proximity to an urban cesspool, it may seem obvious--at least to some people--what kind of verdict I'd have voted for. Then maybe Southeast D.C., not South-Central L.A., would have gone up in flames last month. And maybe Potomac, not Simi Valley, would become a place associated with the nascent racism of the lily white 'burbs...

Author: By Kenneth A. Katz, | Title: The New Justice | 6/2/1992 | See Source »

...Norman Lear tries for a comeback (after last summer's abysmal Sunday Dinner) with a sitcom about a dim-witted Senator. John Forsythe is amusing as a Reaganesque legislator, but the satire and supporting characters (imperious wife, nervous press aide) are broader than the Potomac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Mar. 9, 1992 | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

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