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1991 Rodney King is seen leaving LA County Jail on March 7
1media/Rodney King is seen leaving County Jail_thumb.jpeg2022-06-28T00:46:32+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a4911On March 3, 1991, King's savage beating by Los Angeles police was caught on tape by a bystander watching from his balcony. LA had a long history of police brutality, but now we were all witnessing it first-hand on our TVs. Watching the beating was especially jarring for me because King and I had grown up in the same Pasadena-Altadena community. We'd gone to school together. We weren't close, but I knew him — who went by Glen, never Rodney — as a gentle, friendly kid. The four police — Sgt. Stacey Koon and officers Laurence Powell, Theodore Briseno, and Timothy Wind — went on trial the next year. Adding to public anger, the trial was moved from LA to Simi Valley, a predominantly white "cop town" northwest of the city.plain2022-06-28T00:46:32+00:001991Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
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