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.

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 ...

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.

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.

And that’s actually what happened in the Rodney King case initially, which is amazing because LA’s mayor at the time, Tom Bradley, and LAPD Chief Daryl Gates, they did not get along.

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.

"What followed Wednesday's jury verdict in the Rodney King case was a tragic series of events… nearly 4,000 fires, staggering property damage, hundreds of injuries, and the senseless deaths of ...

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.

Grimes represented King in his lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles, then-mayor Tom Bradley, and several police officers, winning a $3.8 million jury verdict in 1994. The case is USA v.

FILE – In this April 29, 1992 file photo, demonstrators protest the verdict in the Rodney King beating case in front of the Los Angeles Police Department headquarters in Los Angeles.