April 1992, four white police officers were acquitted of a savage beating on a man named Rodney King. This act of aggression was called a “lynching on video,” and because of this, Los Angeles was a giant mosh pit. The infamous video of Rodney King being beaten set off six days of rioting in Los Angeles and surrounding cities. Within those six days, people were killed and injured,
April 1992, four white police officers were acquitted of a savage beating on a man named Rodney King. This act of aggression was called a “lynching on video,” and because of this, Los Angeles was a giant mosh pit. The infamous video of Rodney King being beaten set off six days of rioting in Los Angeles and surrounding cities. Within those six days, people were killed and injured,