Former "rooftop Korean" who defended businesses during 1992 Rodney King riots claims current LA protests are politically ...

(Originally published by the Daily News on May 2, 1992. This story was written by Owen Moritz.) Rodney King, whose savage beating by cops started it all, yesterday appealed to America to stop the w… ...

A member of the National Guard stands near burning building during the Los Angeles riots. In April 1992, after a jury acquitted police officers involved in the beating of Rodney King, riots broke ...

Saturday marks 25 years since the start of one of the deadliest race riots in American history. The violence erupted in South Los Angeles after a jury acquitted four white police officers in the ...

A video of police officers beating Rodney King is the spark that ignited civil unrest in Los Angeles. 'Slow Burn' revisits 1992 LA riots, 30 years after Rodney King verdict Find the original audio ...

— June 28, 1992 — Police Chief Daryl Gates, under intense public pressure since the King beating to resign, retires from the LAPD after 43 years, the last 14 as chief.

On March 3, 1991, Black motorist Rodney King was brutally beaten by Los Angeles Police Department officers as the entire encounter was captured on video. Arson, assault and widespread protests spil… ...

The legacy of the L.A. riots is playing out in every American ... I’m reminded of being 12 years old and watching Rodney King get beaten on the ... In our new season of Slow Burn, ...

L.A. Burning: The Riots 25 Years Later is a special feature on the civil unrest ... Footage from a video showing police beating Rodney King. The riots started in South Central and spread across ...

“This is happening every day. They just caught it on videotape,” says Michael Winters, a resident of South Central Los Angeles, early in the A&E documentary L.A. Burning: The Riots 25 Years Later.

The 1992 uprising took many by surprise, including the Los Angeles Police Department, but the King verdict was a catalyst for racial tensions that had been building in the city for years.