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Bookmark or Share- Los Angeles Riots ‑ 1992, Cause & Rodney King - HISTORYThe 1992 Los Angeles riots—also called the Los Angeles uprising—sprung from years of rising tensions between the LAPD and the city’s African Americans, highlighted by the 1991 videotaped beating...
- The True Story Of Rodney King And The L.A. Riots - All That's InterestingA victim of police brutality whose assailants were acquitted in court, Rodney King found himself at the center of the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
- The True Story Of What Happened To Rodney King - GrungeBefore Eric Garner and George Floyd, there was Rodney King. While he wasn't the first Black man to be a victim of police brutality, his beating was one of the first to be captured on video and broadcast nationwide.
- Rodney King - Riots, Death & Quotes - BiographyBorn on April 2, 1965, in Sacramento, California, Rodney Glen King was an African American who became a symbol of racial tension in America, after his beating by Los Angeles police officers in...
- Rodney King | Say Their Names - Spotlight at StanfordRodney Glen King was a 25-year-old Black man whose brutal beating by several officers from the Los Angeles Police Department after a high-speed chase, was caught on video.
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