Today marks 30 years to the day since #RodneyKing was brutally beaten by LAPD officers as other police watched.
Here's a look at our King coverage from 1991 ⬇️ latimes.com/local/californ…
Here's a look at our King coverage from 1991 ⬇️ latimes.com/local/californ…
“I was scared, I was scared for my life. So I laid down real calmly and took it like a man,” Rodney King in 1991, clad in a blue hospital smock, said from a wheelchair at County Jail hours before his release, more than three days after the attack. latimes.com/local/californ…
A Los Angeles Times Poll from 1991 found that Los Angeles residents overwhelmingly believed that police used excessive force in arresting Rodney G. King and that instances of police brutality are commonplace. latimes.com/local/californ…
In 1992, four Los Angeles police officers won acquittals Wednesday in their trial for the beating King. latimes.com/local/californ…
After the acquittals, Rodney G. King told The Times he was outraged by the not guilty verdicts given to four Los Angeles officers charged in the attack, but remains confident that “the truth will win out and there will be another judgment day.” latimes.com/local/californ…
Thousands of people rioted over six days after the verdict's announcement. latimes.com/local/californ…
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