(CNN) The Sony video camera that recorded the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles Police Department officers, a tape shown on TV stations across the nation and that sparked outrage, is going up for auction. The beating happened just after midnight March 3, 1991, when LAPD officers struck King, then 25, more than 50 times with batons after he had led officers on a high-speed chase. George Holliday recorded the beating from his apartment balcony and called the LAPD, but they weren't helpful, according to the auction house, Nate D. Sanders Auctions. A still image from Holliday's footage shows Rodney King on the ground surrounded by police officers. In April 1992, when the four White officers indicted in the beating were acquitted, massive protests broke out in South Central Los Angeles.

Source: CNN July 28, 2020 22:30 UTC