FILE - This March 23, 1994 file photo shows Rodney King, second from right, leaving the Federal Courthouse in Los Angeles with his lawyer Wilton Grimes, far left, and two unidentified men. King, the ...

How the late-20th-century battles over race and policing in Los Angeles foreshadowed the Trump era. Worth a thousand words: A still from the video of the 1992 police beating of Rodney King. The ...

The death Sunday of Rodney King, the victim of a 1991 police beating in Los Angeles who became a "reluctant symbol of race relations," as the Los Angeles Times says, is prompting many looks back at ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the 1992 riots in Los Angeles. The riots stemmed from the acquittal of four white Los Angeles Police Department officers in the beating of black motorist Rodney King in 1991.

(AP) – Rodney King, whose videotaped beating by four Los Angeles police officers set off 1992’s Los Angeles race riots and became a touchstone in U.S. race relations, was found dead at his home on ...