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A man in California bought a video camera so he could capture behind-the-scenes footage of Robert Patrick and Edward Furlong filming scenes for the Terminator 2 arcade game near his home. Instead he ended up capturing the beating of a motorist: Rodney King

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George Holliday, the man who filmed Rodney King being beaten, met King only once, months later, randomly at a gas station. King thanked him for saving his life.

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1. During the '92 Rodney King riots in LA, Korean store owners, afraid the LAPD would not come to their aid, banded together on rooftops with assault weapons and saved Koreatown from looting.

2. Police stopped Rodney King on the 20th anniversary of his beating and cited him with driving with an expired license

3. Rodney King drowned in a swimming pool in 2012. In his system were traces of Alcohol, weed, coke, and PCP.

4. The 2,100 businesses that were attacked in Koreatown during the Rodney King riots, less than 25% of them ever re-opened.

5. 3 of the 12 "All White" jurors on the Rodney King trial were not actually White. One was Hispanic, another Filipino and the last was Half-Black.

6. Smash Mouth's first hit single, "Walkin' on the Sun", is a political song, calling for racial justice in the wake of the Rodney King beating.

7. Rodney King Was Pulled Over For A Traffic Violation by the LAPD on March 3, 2011. Exactly 20 years after his beating.

8. Daryl Gates, the Police Chief of the LAPD at the time of Rodney King's beating, was given the Ig Nobel prize for peace "for his uniquely compelling methods of bringing people together."

9. Rodney King was drunk (assumed on drugs), ran from the cops, resisted arrest, was tazed, then actively tried to fight the cops who were restraining him, was finally knocked down, they stopped hitting him, then he attempted to get up again and then they beat him.

10. Eazy-E believed Officer Theodore J. Briseno was innocent, and tried to stop the other 3 cops from beating Rodney King

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The 81 second Rodney King beating video that most people saw was edited by TV stations to delete the first 13 seconds. The acquittal of the officers was due in part to the events of those 13 unaired seconds

Paul R. Williams, the first black member of the American Institute of Architects and winner of their 2017 Gold Medal, had most of his professional records destroyed when the building containing them was burned in the Rodney King Riots. - source

In the wake of the 4 police officers accused of assaulting Rodney King being acquitted, Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley appeared on television saying, "Today the system failed us." - source

Rodney King married the only black juror from his civil trial in which he was awarded $3.5mil

The riots resulting from the acquittal of the officers who beat Rodney King resulted in the deaths of 53 people, over 2,000 people injured, over 7,000 arrests, and over $1 billion of property damage. The officers were acquitted at about 3:15 P.M. Rioting started at 5:00 P.M. the same day. - source

When did rodney king die?

The 1992 Los Angeles riots over the acquittal of four policemen responsible for assaulting Rodney King. The riots resulted in the loss of over 50 lives, 11,000 arrests, and 1 billion dollars in property damage.

How did rodney king die?

The most recent originator of the phrase "Can't we all just get along?" (misquoted from the original "Can we all get along?") is Rodney King, during the riots following the acquittals of the officers charged with beating him.

The opening bar scene in Terminator 2: Judgement Day was filmed across the street from where Rodney King was filmed being beaten.

The death of Latasha Harlins, a 15yr-old African-American who was shot in the head by a Korean store owner in Los Angeles 13 days after the videotaped beating of Rodney King.

In 2001 Cincinnati had the largest riot since 1992's Rodney King riot in LA. The riot was also due to the death of a young black male to a white police officer.

Crystal Waters, the singer of legendary house track Gypsy Woman, was married to Rodney King at the time of his beating by LAPD officers.