George Holliday, the plumber who fortuitously videotaped the nighttime traffic stop in which Los Angeles police officers beat Black motorist Rodney King in 1991, an incident that led to a closely ...

Protests across Los Angeles have stirred up painful memories of the city’s notorious Rodney King and Watts race riots, when African-American anger over police brutality resulted in deadly clashes.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Opening statements are scheduled to begin on Monday in the trial of Derek Chauvin, a former officer with the Minneapolis Police Department who has been charged with murder in ...

Rallies and peaceful protests were held in Westchester in 1992 after a Los Angeles jury found four police officers not guilty of criminal charges in the beating of Rodney King. But the county was not ...

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 ...

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 ...