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For those who lived through the Rodney King case 30 years ago, there is concern the Derek Chauvin trial could offer a painful repeat of the past.
The jurors who heard nearly three months of testimony in the Rodney King case say the infamous video tape provided only a partial picture of what happened on March 3, 1991. Jurors interviewed ...
A version of this article appears in print on July 6, 2019, Section B, Page 14 of the New York edition with the headline: Barry Kowalski, 74, Prosecutor in Rodney King Case, Dies.
Twenty-five years after the LAPD’s beatdown of Rodney King, cops are more likely to shoot than swing a nightstick — because it looks better on video, according to a defense lawyer in th… ...
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.
Barry Kowalski, prosecutor in Rodney King police brutality case, dies at 74 July 2, 2019 More than 6 years ago By Emily Langer ...
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. That’s how ...
The former prosecutor who Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón wants to hire to review a series of police shootings was part of the team that convicted two cops for violating Rodney ...
He was home and found by his fiancée. 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 ...
After the King beating and the 1992 riots, the LAPD forfeited the city's trust. It isn't surprising that jurors would have their doubts about the case the department built against O.J. Simpson.
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.
A lawyer who represented Rodney King after he was beaten by Los Angeles police officers in 1991 has agreed to plead guilty to federal criminal charges stemming from his failure to pay more than $2 ...