#1 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 06/19/2012 #3

This April 13th, 2012, file photo shows Rodney King posing for a portrait in Los Angeles. King, the black motorist whose 1991 videotaped beating by Los Angeles police officers was the touchstone for one of the most destructive police race riots in the nation’s history, has died, his publicist said Sunday, June 17th, 2012. He was 47.

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#3 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 03/03/2022 #12

In 1991, motorist Rodney Glen King was severely beaten by Los Angeles police officers in a scene captured on amateur video. #RodneyKing Interesting they show this picture instead of the one where he is getting beaten by the cops?

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#4 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 04/19/2022 #13

In 1994, a Los Angeles jury awarded $3.8 million to beaten motorist Rodney Glen King. #RodneyKing

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#5 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 04/29/2022 #11

In 1992, a jury in Simi Valley, CA, acquitted four Los Angeles police officers of almost all state charges in the videotaped beating of motorist Rodney King; the verdicts were followed by rioting in Los Angeles resulting in 55 deaths. #RodneyKing #Riot1992LosAngeles

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#6 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 06/17/2022 #14

In 2012, Rodney Glen King, 47, whose 1991 videotaped beating by Los Angeles police sparked widespread outrage and who struggled with addiction and repeated arrests, died in Rialto, CA, in an apparent accidental drowning. #RodneyKing

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#7 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 08/04/2022 #10

In 1993, a federal judge sentenced Los Angeles police officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 21/2 years in prison for violating Rodney King’s civil rights. #RodneyKing

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