Rodney Glen King (April 2, 1965 – June 17, 2012) was an African American man who was a victim of police brutality. On March 3, 1991, he was severely beaten...

The 1992 Los Angeles riots (also called the Rodney King riots or the 1992 Los Angeles uprising) were a series of riots and civil disturbances that occurred...

Rodney King is a 2017 American one-man show directed by Spike Lee and written by and starring Roger Guenveur Smith. The film is a one-man show where Roger...

is one of the four police officers who were responsible for beating Rodney King in 1991. He was sentenced to 2+1⁄2 years in federal prison in 1993 for...

co-founded the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program. After the arrest of Rodney King and the subsequent riots, Gates retired from the LAPD. Much of the blame...

and misconduct within the LAPD was revealed to the public: the 1991 Rodney King beating led to the 1992 Los Angeles riots, while the 1997 Rampart scandal...

avoided media contact. On March 3, 1991, an amateur video recording showed Rodney King, a black motorist, being badly beaten by Los Angeles Police Department...

The killing of Harlins came 13 days after the videotaped beating of Rodney King. Latasha Harlins was born January 1, 1976, in East St. Louis, Illinois...

Rodney King Thorn (born May 23, 1941) is an American basketball executive and a former professional player and coach, Olympic Committee Chairman, with...

police departments in Los Angeles County in response to the ongoing Rodney King riots. The next day, the ATF activated its Special Response Team tactical...