March 3, 1991: Rodney King beating caught on video
WEBOn March 3, 1991, four police officers were filmed beating taxi driver Rodney King after a pursuit through the streets of Los Angeles. The video shocked the city, and the events that...
Rodney King - Wikipedia
WEBRodney 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.
LAPD officers beat Rodney King on camera | March 3, 1991 - HISTORY
WEBMar 4, 2010 · LAPD officers beat Rodney King on camera. At 12:45 a.m. on March 3, 1991, robbery parolee Rodney G. King stops his car after leading police on a nearly 8-mile pursuit through the streets of...
Los Angeles Riots ‑ 1992, Cause & Rodney King | HISTORY
WEBApr 18, 2017 · The 1992 Los Angeles riots—also called the Los Angeles uprising—sprung from years of rising tensions between the LAPD and the city’s African Americans, highlighted by the 1991 videotaped...
When LA Erupted In Anger: A Look Back At The Rodney King Riots
WEBApr 26, 2017 · Twenty-five years ago this week, four Los Angeles policemen — three of them white — were acquitted of the savage beating of Rodney King, an African-American man. Caught on camera by a bystander,...
LA Riots Timeline of Events: Rodney King Verdict and Aftermath – …
WEBApr 28, 2022 · Here is a look at key events before and after the April 29, 1992 criminal case acquittal of four white LAPD officers in the beating of Rodney King.
George Holliday, Who Shot The Video Of Officers Beating Rodney King ...
WEBSep 21, 2021 · LOS ANGELES — George Holliday, the Los Angeles plumber who shot grainy video of four white police officers beating Black motorist Rodney King in 1991, has died of complications of COVID-19, a...
TRIAL STORY: THE "RODNEY KING" CASE: WHAT THE JURY SAW IN CALIFORNIA …
WEBThis episode examines the case brought against the police officers involved in the arrest and assault of Rodney King on March 3rd, 1991. The incident, caught on video tape, involves four white police officers arresting and beating King, an unarmed African-American man, causing riots and mass protests throughout Los Angeles.
Three decades after Rodney King’s beating, police reform in Los …
WEBApr 29, 2022 · Thirty years ago on Friday, parts of Los Angeles erupted in unrest after a jury acquitted four White Los Angeles police officers over the videotaped beating of Rodney King, a Black motorist.
U.S. Jury Indicts 4 Police Officers In King Beating
WEBAug 6, 1992 · Three months after a state jury acquitted four Los Angeles police officers on nearly all charges in the beating of Rodney G. King, a verdict that set off deadly riots, a Federal grand jury...