Rodney_King_Trail

Rodney King Trail For everyone who saw the horrifying beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers, it seemed like an open-and-shut case. The video was captured by a private citizen and played on television showing three Los Angeles police officers beating with metal batons, kicking, and stomping on a seemingly defenseless African-American named Rodney King as their supervisor watched. Everyone seemed to believe that the police used excessive force in arresting King. Regardless of the videotape, a jury in Simi Valley concluded that the evidence was not adequate to convict these officers. Within hours of the jury's verdict, Los Angeles erupted in riots. When it was over, fifty-four people had lost their lives, over 7,000 people had been arrested, and hundreds of millions of dollars worth of property had been destroyed. In the morning of March 3, 1991 Rodney Glen King was spotted driving at very high speeds. California Highway Patrol, Tim and Melanie Singer began to chase King’s speeding car, who he ignored as sirens and lights flashed. As the chase came to an end, King was surrounded by police officers. Within seconds, Los Angeles police cars arrived at the scene as well king, force, officers, powell, police, koon, beating, wind, officer, los, deadly, briseno, angeles, rodney, excessive, even, case, very, sergeant, scale, people, hit, felt, after, the, trail, over, made, incident, first, everyone, duke, defense, called, because