A videotape showed Los Angeles police officers beating Rodney King with nightsticks and kicking him as other officers watched on Sunday, March 3, 1991. Whether intentional or not, the verdict sent ...

Riots broke out in Los Angeles after a jury acquitted four police officers accused of beating a black youth, Rodney King, hours after the verdict was announced. MIKE NELSON/AFP/Getty Images On ...

It showed the police beating Rodney King some 50 times with batons and ... “stunned,” as “it was hard to understand how the verdict could possibly square with the video.” ...

Look back at the trial and deadly riots that ensued following the landmark verdict on the anniversary of King's assault. On March 3, 1991, Rodney King was assaulted by police officers after a high ...

But there was far more to it than one jury verdict. "The Rodney King situation was just the straw that broke the camel's back," said YoYo Whitaker, who grew up in South LA and was then just ...

Americans were glued to another seminal police brutality trial and verdict — the acquittal of four White LAPD officers for savagely beating Black motorist Rodney King. After that verdict ...

This is the seesaw of emotions most of us experience after the disgraceful Rodney King verdict and its violent aftermath. One moment we howl at the verdict, the next we howl at the rampaging mobs.

the iconic city of Los Angeles fell into a state of historic unrest after four police officers were acquitted in the savage beating of an African-American man named Rodney King. King suffered ...

He also echoed my feelings about how the King verdict rendered us unable to trust the justice system to deal with police abuse. “We’d seen them on videotape beating Rodney King savagely.

The beating of Rodney King in 1991, the riots that followed the acquittals of those officers in 1992 and the abject failure of the department to contain those riots all left the LAPD’s standing ...

Whether intentional or not, the verdict sent a message, said then-Assemblyman Joseph Charles, D-Hudson. "Those jurors told Rodney King and the rest of the world that violence and racism is OK ...