This Day in Black History: April 2, 1965 Rodney King was born in Sacramento, California, on April 2, 1965. (238 hits)

This Day in Black History: April 2, 1965
Rodney King was born in Sacramento, California, on April 2, 1965.

Racial tensions were brewing across the nation in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. In Los Angeles, where L.A.’s Black population was often the victim of racial profiling by the LAPD, things were particularly heated.

With tensions already high, Rodney King, born April 2, 1965, became an involuntary symbol of the struggle when a brutal beating by the police was caught on tape on March 3, 1991.

After a three-month trial, the four police officers responsible for beating King were acquitted by a predominantly white jury, inciting the 1992 L.A. riots.

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