Middleton, a defense attorney and former federal prosecutor known for convicting the LAPD officers responsible for the Rodney ...

(CNN)-- The beating of Rodney King 20 years ago Thursday marked the end of a 100-mph car chase and the beginning of a chain of events that would forever change Los Angeles, its police department ...

and then started beating him. Hall claimed was “beaten like Rodney King,” a Black man who was jumped by a group of Los Angeles Police Department officers in 1991 after a high-speed chase.

“I would definitely say his strength. He never stopped fighting.” George Holliday filmed the Rodney King beating Juan King, 49, recalled his big brother as “a peacemaker” — although ...

On the one hand, it seems rather in poor taste to turn this real-life uprising, which sparked when a jury acquitted police officers for the use of excessive force in the beating of Rodney King ...

Looking back at LA riots after beating of Rodney King Twenty-five years ago, parts of Los Angeles erupted with anger after four white police officers who were filmed beating motorist Rodney King ...

To mark the 25th anniversary of the LA Riots, actor-writer Roger Guenveur Smith's fiery solo show “Rodney King” has been turned into a Spike Lee film in which Smith places the beating of King ...

It is a very uncomfortable reality. When you have a topic like the Rodney King beating and then the Rodney King verdict, where you had White police officers literally smiling in the courtroom when the ...

The uproar that followed the verdict handed down in the police beating of Rodney King serves as a mere backdrop for fathers and sons to work out their issues in a heist thriller. By Ben Kenigsberg ...

“Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski and the police officers charged in the beating of motorist Rodney King. By The Associated Press Linda Deutsch, a special correspondent for The Associated Press who ...

Rodney King had already been tinkering for 20 years on a robot that could automate retail when his sons joined him for the next step: co-founding the tech startup Autobotit. In a concept store on ...

Whether its making "1992," set in his hometown of Watts, Los Angeles, with its heavy topic (the Rodney King riots) or producing his new album "Beautiful Pain," a deeply vulnerable story about this ...