20th Anniversary of the Rodney King Beating

These days we take our mobile phones and digital cameras out of our pockets, wallets, or bags and take a quick video of babies, art, food, friends or curious moments. We add it to our Facebook, Twitter accounts, or sites like YouTube where these personal films have a welcome home. 20 years, but make a short video was a bit more laborious and the equipment more cumbersome. Think you test out your new camera in a matter that would go down in history: LAPD officers beating a black male motorist.
That is what happened to George Holliday, who remembered today in the LA Times, on the 20th anniversary of what we then got to know who Rodney King beating ":
The nine minutes of grainy video [Holliday] caught by Los Angeles police beating Rodney King helped to spur dramatic reform in a department that many felt driven with impunity. The video played a key role in the criminal trial of four officers, whose non-guilty judgments in 1992 sparked days of rioting in Los Angeles where more than 50 people died.
Holliday sold his film to KTLA for $ 500. The rest, as we know, troubled history.
Los Angeles Police Department has come a long way since then, like the King himself. Today, many remembers King as they knew him 1991, and say consequences of one moment affected them and their societies deeply. In 2009 the 17 anniversary of the 1992 LA Riots, LAist told King he remembered the beating on March 3, 1991, and how he had told himself that he "had better living through it."
Rodney Glen King (born April 2, 1965) is an American best known for his involvement in a police brutality case involving the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) on 3 March 1991. A bystander, George Holliday, videotaped much of the incident from a distance.
The films showed LAPD officers repeatedly striking King with their batons while other officers stood by watching, but has taken no action to stop the brutal beatings. Some of this footage was broadcast by news agencies around the world and causing public scandal that raised tensions between the black community and the LAPD, and increased anger over police brutality and social injustice in Los Angeles.
Four LAPD officers were later tried in a state court for the beating, but was acquitted. The announcement of the acquittals sparked the 1992 Los Angeles riots. A recent federal trial on civil rights ended with two of the officers who had been sentenced to prison and the other two officers were acquitted.
Ing was born in Sacramento, California Odessa to the king, who had four other children. His father, Ronald, an alcoholic, died at the age of the 42nd King grew up in Pasadena, California.
In November 1989, King robbed a store in Monterey Park, California with an iron bar to threaten and beat the store owner. He was convicted and sentenced to two years imprisonment.
King is divorced and has three children.
On September 9, 2010 confirmed the King's marriage to Cynthia Kelly, who was juror # 5 on a case he brought against the city of Los Angeles. It was believed that Kelly would often wink at the King case, according to witnesses. While the king claimed that he would often picture her with a halo over his head, as he did awkward gestures towards her, many believe it was most likely effects of the drugs he was on at the moment. King has assured friends and family that his marriages with Kelly not will slow him down from his work two local nonprofit organizations in South Central Los Angeles.