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KLAN INVITATION BLUES
With the videotape of the Rodney King beating playing
ominously overhead, Victoria portrays an anonymous juror from the trial
of the four police officers. Mired in sorrow and disgust, this
juror describes the invitation to join the Ku Klux Klan he received
shortly after delivering the notorious Not Guilty verdict.
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NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE!
Victoria plays truculent Chairman of the Free the L.A. Four Defense
Committee Paul Parker who eagerly speaks out against police brutality. |
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MIXED MESSAGES
Victoria transforms into Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley
who explains that he never "seriously thought" there'd
be a not guilty verdict in the trial of the police videotaped beating
Rodney King.
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ABRA CADABRA!
In search of an explanation of how the jury could possibly have turned
in a Not Guilty ruling, Victoria portrays L.A. District Attorney Gil
Garcetti who charismatically describes the magical effect police
testimony can have on a jury. |
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THIS IS NOT MY UNITED STATES
ANYMORE.
Transforming again, Victoria now becomes L.A. Reporter Judith Tur who
plays the footage she shot of the beating of white trucker Reginald
Denny at the corner of Normandie and Florence during the height of the
rioting.
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A VERY INTERESTING TIME
Victoria plays the astonishingly upbeat Reginald Denny who's just happy
to be alive and eternally grateful to the four people who came to his
rescue. |
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RIOTS ARE THE VOICE OF THE UNHEARD
Victoria now plays -- you guessed it -- California
Congresswoman Maxine Waters who fiercely tells her tale of bursting in
on President Bush in demand of urban reform just after the riots.
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POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
Victoria points ominously at the audience as former Black Panther Party
Chairwoman Elaine Brown who warns: "You better know how to
shoot. And you better know who to shoot. And you better know
how to not go to jail after you've done that." |
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CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE
Pulling off another lighting-quick transformation, Victoria becomes
brutalized Korean Store Owner Walter Park who speaks in
heart-wrenchingly slow and disjointed sentences after being shot in the
head by looters amidst the rioting.
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LIMBO
Victoria shifts into the role of an oh-so mellow gang member with the
street name of "Twilight Bey" -- the organizer of the truce
between L.A.'s most powerful gangs The Bloods and the Crips during the
riots -- and contemplatively explains "I can't forever live in
darkness . . . it's like I'm stuck in limbo, like the sun is stuck
between night and day in the twilight hours." |
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Photography by Kurt Schneiderman.
