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  2. Rodney King - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. 1992 Los Angeles riots - Wikipedia

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    King and his family later returned to Los Angeles, where they ran a family-owned construction company. Until his death on June 17, 2012, King rarely discussed the night of his beating by police or its aftermath, preferring to remain out of the spotlight. King died of an accidental drowning; authorities said that he had alcohol and drugs in his ...

  4. George Holliday, who shot video of police beating Rodney King ...

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    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 ...

  5. LA 92 (film) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. George Holliday, man who filmed Rodney King beating, dies ...

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    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 ...

  7. Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982–1992 - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  8. George Holliday, who shot video of police beating Rodney King ...

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    George Holliday, the plumber who shot video of Los Angeles police officers beating the Black motorist in 1991, has died at a hospital in California due to complications from COVID-19.

  9. 30 years after Rodney King, parallels seen in Chauvin trial - AOL

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    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 ...