LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Opening statements are scheduled to begin on Monday in the trial of Derek Chauvin, a former officer with the Minneapolis Police Department who has been charged with murder in ...

Remember when Rodney King’s brutal beating by the LAPD was caught on video? The nine minutes of grainy footage put an angry national spotlight on how the LAPD treated black people. The department has ...

Rodney King has been called, "an accidental agent of change." His videotaped beating by officers of the Los Angeles Police Department led to what are still called "the Rodney King riots of 1992." As ...

The death Sunday of Rodney King, the victim of a 1991 police beating in Los Angeles who became a "reluctant symbol of race relations," as the Los Angeles Times says, is prompting many looks back at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thirty-four years after Rodney King’s beating, arrest and a verdict that followed, prompting widespread rioting in Los Angeles ...

(CNN) — Here is some background information about the 1992 riots in Los Angeles. The riots stemmed from the acquittal of four white Los Angeles Police Department officers in the beating of black ...

A plaque honoring Rodney King's legacy has been installed at the site of his former childhood home in Altadena. Felicia Ford, who bought the plot, worked with community organizations to commemorate ...