Rodney King, an African American brutalized by L.A. Police officers, speaks out for the first time since the acquittal of the officers charged with attacking him. After suffering an unwarranted beating from cops after a car chase, race riots broke out in the Los Angeles area when the charged L.A.P.D personnel were acquitted.
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The 1992 Los Angeles Riots, also known as the Rodney King Riots, the South Central Riots, the 1992 Los Angeles Civil Disturbance, and the 1992 Los Angeles Civil Unrest, were a series of riots, lootings, arsons and civil disturbance that occurred in Los Angeles County, California in 1992, following the acquittal of police officers on trial regarding a videotaped, and widely covered police brutality incident.
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