The Rodney King incident projected the brutal reality of police abuse into living rooms across the nation, and for a while, the problem was front page news. No one who viewed that beating will ever forget its viciousness. An amateur video, televised nationwide, showed King lying on the ground while three officers kicked him and struck him repeatedly with their nightsticks. In the early hours of March 3, 1991, a police chase in Los Angeles ended in an incident that would become synonymous with police brutality: the beating of a young man named Rodney King by members of the Los Angeles Police Department. CONTROLLING THE POLICE - COMMUNITY GOALSĬertification and Licensing of Police Officers
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