The number of insurance claims surpassed the record set in 1992 with the riots that occurred in response to police brutality against Rodney King. (RELATED: Image Claiming To Show South Korean ...

Rodney King, dead at age 47. King, whose police brutality case in 1991 led to deadly riots in Los Angeles, was found dead in a swimming pool Sunday in California. Video courtesy of Reuters.

It didn't quite work out that way and some people decided to riot", he said. While Rodney King may have been the catalyst that sparked the Los Angeles riots, the conditions in South Los Angeles ...

As we marked Martin Luther King Jr. Day, ironically on the same day as Donald Trump’s second presidential inauguration, I am ...

Two months later, four LAPD officers were caught on videotape beating Rodney King. A year later, the night before the riots/rebellion broke out, I was in the Nickerson Gardens housing project in ...

Yes, that plea came not from MLK but from Rodney King, no relation to the great civil rights leader, in May 1992 as riots erupted in Los Angeles after a mostly white jury acquitted four Los ...

As we marked the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, ironically on the same day as Donald Trump’s second presidential ...