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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.On March 3, 1991, he was severely beaten by officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) during his arrest after a high speed pursuit for driving while intoxicated on the I-210.
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
Rodney King's brutal beating in 1991 provides a road map for determining if police misconduct is limited to a few 'bad apples' or is a systemic problem.
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 ...
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.
Rodney King was awarded $3.8 million in damages from the City of Los Angeles. He invested most of this money in founding a hip-hop record label, "Straight Alta-Pazz Records". The venture was unable to garner success and soon folded. King was later arrested at least eleven times on a variety of charges, including domestic abuse and hit and run.
George Holliday, the plumber who shot video of Los Angeles police officers beating Black motorist Rodney King in 1991, has died at a hospital in California due to complications from COVID-19, a ...
The man who filmed Rodney King‘s infamous beating at the hands of the LAPD in 1991 has died after reportedly The post George Holliday, man who filmed Rodney King beating, dies from COVID-19 ...