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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Outrage at the verdict was immediate and widespread ... “We are dedicated to honoring Rodney King’s message and legacy of bringing people together. #GetAlong.” At Forest Lawn Memorial ...

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.

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 ...