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.

T]he greatest sin among them was turning a brother in blue over to the justice system.” Jesse Brewer had been the LAPD’s ...

The man who famously shot video of four Los Angeles police officers beating Rodney King in 1991 has died of COVID-19. According to the Los Angeles Times and the Associated Press, George Holliday, 61, ...

Thirty years ago this month the city of Los Angeles went up in flames after a jury acquitted three police officers of criminal charges for the beating of Rodney King one year before. When I watched ...

FILE - A Korean shopping mall burns in Los Angeles, April 30, 1992 on the second day of rioting in the city following the acquittal of four police officers for the 1991 beating of motorist Rodney King ...

The images of cars set ablaze, protesters tossing rocks at police and officers firing nonlethal rounds and tear gas at protesters hearkens back to the last time a president sent the National Guard to ...