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**FILE** Rodney King, the Los Angeles motorist whose beating by police was captured on videotape, smiles, 01 May 1992 in Beverly Hills, during a press conference, where he called for the end of violence in the city. The 1992 Los Angeles riots, with looting and arson events, erupted 29 April 1992 when a mostly white jury acquitted the four police officers accused in the videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King, after he fled from police. 52 people were killed during the riots and Rodney King became a reluctant symbol of police brutality. (Robert Sullivan/AFP/Getty Images)

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Rodney King’s Daughter Launches Scholarship in His Honor

by WI Guest Author May 1, 2019December 21, 2021

The daughter of the late Rodney King, a man whose name was once synonymous with police brutality, is on a mission to keep his memory alive.

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