Twenty-five years ago, on the cusp of the home video era, a drunk and speeding Rodney King led officers on a pursuit that ended in front of George Holliday's Lake View Terrace apartment in northeast ...

The man who famously shot video of four Los Angeles police officers beating Rodney King in 1991 has died of COVID-19. According to the Los Angeles Times and the Associated Press, George Holliday, 61, ...

Remember when Rodney King’s brutal beating by the LAPD was caught on video? The nine minutes of grainy footage put an angry national spotlight on how the LAPD treated black people. The department has ...

LOS ANGELES — Nine years ago Thursday, the world lost a man who drew attention to police brutality and the racial divide in America, years before the events of 2020. On March 3, 1991 in Los Angeles, ...

Rodney King, the man whose brutal beating by Los Angeles police officers sparked the Los Angeles race riots, was found dead Sunday at the age of 47. Police responded to a call from King's fiancee who ...

In 1992 four of the Los Angeles Police Department officers who brutally beat Rodney Glen King during a traffic stop were acquitted, and the anger over the perception of injustice set off the Los ...

In his Miami Herald column, Leonard Pitts reflects on changes brought about by the videotaped beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers. This all started with Rodney King. More to the ...

(The Center Square) – Amid mentions by the president, use of active-duty Army troops on American soil to quell unrest via an 1807 federal law hasn’t taken place since verdicts announced in 1992 ...

LAPD Chief Charlie Beck says the trouble in Ferguson reminded him of rioting in Los Angeles in 1992, when four officers were acquitted in the beating of Rodney King. But nothing comparable took place.

Drawing on decades of experience after having dealt with the beating of Rodney King, the killing of George Floyd and more, American law enforcement leaders, civil rights advocates and other legal ...