Rodney King in Los Angeles, 2012. “Since Rodney King, LAPD has just gotten slicker. ‘The whole world watched’On 3 March 1991, just after midnight, 25-year-old Rodney King was pulled over, and four white LAPD officers brutally kicked and beat him on the pavement. Flames roar from a Thrifty Drug store in the Crenshaw area of Los Angeles on 29 April 1992. Smoke rises from a shopping center burned by rioters in Los Angeles on 30 April 1992.

Source: The Guardian March 03, 2021 06:00 UTC