RIOTS ERUPT IN L.A. AFTER COPS ACQUITTED IN RODNEY KING CASE IN 1992 “Time and again, King controlled the action,” one juror was quoted as saying by ABC News.

Rodney King's brutal beating by LAPD officers 25 years ago led to the infamous L.A. riots in 1992.

King's R&B group Club Nouveau tackled the Rodney King incident in its music, and he said he plans to release music soon that will incorporate his feelings about the Chauvin case.

The verdict in the Rodney King case may be deplorable to many Americans, including the African-American community, but one focus of public concern now should be on what went on in the courtroom.

June 17, 2012— -- Rodney King, the man who was at the center of the Los Angeles police brutality case that later sparked the Los Angeles riots has died. He was 47. Suzanne Wickman, a ...

Thirty years ago, I watched Rodney King beaten. We thought our fight was finally over. When the police officers in the Rodney King case were acquitted, I felt hopeless and defeated.

Barry F. Kowalski in 1993, during the trial in which he won the convictions of two white Los Angeles police officers for the beating of Rodney G. King.

Rodney King poses for a portrait after a book signing for "The Riot Within: My Journey from Rebellion to Redemption" in NYC on April 24, 2012.

And I think you know it reminds me [sic] of OJ Simpson and, to some extent, of the Rodney King case where everybody was so primed to think one way that they were shocked that there was a defense.

Rodney King dies; victim of police L.A. beating was 47 Barry Frank Kowalski was born in Hartford, Conn., on Aug. 26, 1944, and grew up mainly in Alexandria, Va.