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 ...
As police investigate the death of Rodney King, who died of an apparent drowning in his California pool on Sunday at the age 47, civil rights leaders and others are examining his complicated legacy.
The images of cars set ablaze, protesters tossing rocks at police and officers firing nonlethal rounds and tear gas at protesters hearkens back to the last time a president sent the National Guard to ...
The horrifying Los Angeles protests have been compared to the historic Rodney King rampage — on the anniversary of the cop beating victim's death. RadarOnline.com can reveal King was found dead at the ...
Rodney King became much more than a man; he was a cultural marker who alerted America to the police state that existed. His beating and treatment at the hands of the police sparked the Los Angeles ...
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Opening statements are scheduled to begin on Monday in the trial of Derek Chauvin, a former officer with the Minneapolis Police Department who has been charged with murder in ...
In a Southern California story of national interest, Rodney King was found dead last night in his swimming pool at the age of 47. He was the unarmed, black victim of a savage beating by Los Angeles ...
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, ...
The year is 1992. Four Los Angeles Policemen were just acquitted of the vicious beating of Rodney King. As outraged Black Americans sobbed in horror as the white officers walked free, racial tensions ...
*Oscar winner Halle Berry bonds with Daniel Craig amid the L.A. riots in director Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s “Kings” — a title that pays homage to Rodney King, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and other agents ...