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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

A look at key events before, during and after the unrest: — March 3, 1991 — Rodney King is pulled over by ... April 29, 1992 — Soon after the verdict is read, an angry Los Angeles Mayor ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Had the man been white, had he been of Oriental descent, had he been anything and acted as Rodney King did, he would have been given the same treatment.” “I have no regrets about the ...

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 ...