"How can I write when I have lost control of my emotions?" That's how Cory Booker began a column as a master's degree student at Stanford, enraged and saddened but not surprised when a jury delivered a "not guilty" verdict in the beating of Rodney King.

(Cory Booker via Twitter)

Booker's refrain was "not guilty… not shocked." Booker, now a senator from New Jersey, tweeted the column Tuesday as a way of relating to outrage over the Ferguson decision, and it's still sadly resonant more than 20 years later: