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A few YouTube videos of this incident
Monday, March 2, 2015
This Day in LA History: March 3, 1991 Rodney King Beating
On March 3, 1991, Rodney
King was caught by the Los Angeles police after a high-speed chase. The officers pulled him out of the car and beat brutally assaulted him, while someone caught it all on
videotape. The four L.A.P.D. officers involved were indicted on charges
of assault with a deadly weapon and excessive use of force by a police
officer. However, after a three-month trial, a predominantly white jury
acquitted the officers, inflaming citizens and sparking the violent 1992
Los Angeles riots
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