Before George Floyd, There was Rodney King and The L.A. Riots
by Candace McDuffie from on (#5YQ8P)
On April 29, 1992, the four white Los Angeles police officers who beat Black motorist Rodney King within an inch of his life a year earlier, were acquitted in a court of law on almost all charges (one of which included felony assault). The only things Theodore Briseno and Timothy Wind lost were their jobs in law...