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.

Rodney Glen King’s March 3, 1991, beating by police was videotaped and widely viewed in television broadcasts. The April 29, 1992, acquittal of four Los Angeles Police Department officers sparked Los ...

George Holliday, 61, was reportedly unvaccinated and on a ventilator at the time of his death on Sunday George Holliday, a plumber who famously captured footage of the late Rodney King being beaten by ...

His name once was synonymous with police brutality. Angry mobs shouted it as they torched buildings. And in some circles, the riots that erupted in the streets of Los Angeles in April 1992 bore his ...

LOS ANGELES — Rodney King was remembered in Los Angeles on Saturday as a forgiving man who bore the scars of his infamous beating with dignity. The Rev. Al Sharpton, who delivered the eulogy at Forest ...

The skirmishes with immigration agents of the past few days are dwarfed by the widespread rioting, vandalism and violence that engulfed whole neighborhoods in 1992. By Billy Witz In addition to ...

Twenty-five years after the LAPD’s beatdown of Rodney King, cops are more likely to shoot than swing a nightstick — because it looks better on video, according to a defense lawyer in the infamous ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – George Holliday, the plumber who videotaped the violent Los Angeles police beating of Black motorist Rodney King in Lake View Terrace back in 1991 – one of the most defining ...

The virtual AI-powered chat is run by the University of Southern California. The beating of Tyre Nichols by police captured on body-camera footage was a painful reminder for Lora King, the daughter of ...

Spike Lee directs 'Rodney King,' a filmed version of a one-man play by his frequent onscreen collaborator Roger Guenveur Smith. By Sheri Linden Senior Copy Editor/Film Critic Smith’s interpretive ...