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Rodney Glen King (April 2, 1965 – June 17, 2012) was an African-American man who was a victim of police brutality. ... which is now Discovery Cube Los Angeles. ...
Stacey Cornell Koon (born November 23, 1950) is an American former policeman with the Los Angeles Police Department.He is one of the four policemen who were responsible for beating Rodney King in March 1991.
On March 3, 1991, an amateur video recording showed Rodney King, a black motorist, being badly beaten by Los Angeles Police Department officers during an arrest. The outrage resulting from the acquittal of these police officers was the principal cause of the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
The year was 1991, and images of Los Angeles cops beating Rodney King, a Black motorist, were sparking a national firestorm over police brutality. Floyd was a 16-year-old student in an ...
Thirty years ago next week, L.A. erupted in anger after the acquittals of four LAPD officers who beat Rodney King. King's daughter Lora reflects on what she remembers, what's changed and what hasn't.
Thirty years after the acquittal of four cops in the beating of Rodney King sparked a rebellion in L.A., experts reflect on police reforms
The West Las Vegas riots were sparked on April 29, 1992, after the Rodney King verdict, where all four white LAPD officers were acquitted for the beating of motorist Rodney King in Los Angeles, California. After the Los Angeles riots were sparked, Black residents of West Las Vegas started to loot and burned several stores. Gun battles had ...
Lora King, whose father, Rodney, was beaten by Los Angeles Police Department officers during a 1991 traffic stop, says she was sickened by the footage of Memphis police beating the 29-year-old ...