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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.
Rodney King: 1965 2012 47 Taxi driver Multiple Accidental Drowned due to the combined effects of a heart condition, alongside alcohol, cocaine, marijuana and phencyclidine intoxication [373] Thomas Kinkade: 1958 2012 54 Painter Diazepam and alcohol Unknown [374] Ben Klassen: 1918 1993 75 Founder of Creativity: Sleeping pills Suicide [375] [376 ...
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 Floyd and his childhood friends spoke of the video with astonishment. The year was 1991, and images of Los Angeles cops beating Rodney King, a Black motorist, were sparking a national ...
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.
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Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982–1992 is a deep examination of a tumultuous decade in the city of Los Angeles, starting with the death of James Mincey Jr. and continuing through the 1984 Summer Olympics; the rise of street gangs; the crack epidemic; the death of Karen Toshima; Operation Hammer; the raid at 39th and Dalton; the beating of Rodney King; the death of Latasha Harlins; and the trial ...
Consisting entirely of archival footage, the documentary chronicles the 1992 Los Angeles riots after 25 years have passed. [7]It includes film and video from the 1965 Watts Riots, the 1973 election of Tom Bradley, the 1978 promotion of Daryl Gates, the shooting of Latasha Harlins, the Rodney King videotape and the subsequent riots and violence that erupted after the acquittal of the officers ...