#032 The Tale of Rodney King: The Beating Seen Around the World

The Killafornia Dreaming Podcast

Roseanne

True Crime, Killers, Non-fiction, Mystery, Justice System, News, Podcast, Criminal, Murder, California, Law Enforcement, Discussion, Crime

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2018

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

The 1991 Beating Of Motorist Rodney King After A Traffic Stop By The LAPD

**The sound quality of the first couple dozen episodes of this show isn't good; I was still learning!! Skip ahead about a year! Also, KD is no longer a part of the Orbital Jigsaw Network or Blubrry**

Rodney Glen King was caught speeding on the 210 freeway in the early morning hours of March 3, 1991. He led officers on a brief high speed chase until he was finally cornered at an intersection in Lake View Terrace. The LAPD took over command of the scene and 4 officers tased and beat Rodney a total of 56 times with their police batons, as well as kicks to the head and body. We are going to talk about who Rodney King was, what happened to the officers who were charged with use of excessive force, leading up to the events that occurred following the fallout of the trial of the 4 officers charged with using excessive force -
Theodore J. Briseño, Stacey Cornell Koon, Laurence M. Powell, and Timothy E. Wind. The footage of the beating was filmed by George Holiday.

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0:00.0	Hi Dreamers, this is Nick and this is Andy and we host the concession stand, a podcast from two guys who work in the TV and movie business right here in Los Angeles.
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0:52.1	W.W.
0:55.0	W. On March 3rd, 1991, I was a junior in high school, kind of just meandering through my days with my small
1:10.9	circle of friends. I'm pretty sure I was obsessing over new kids on the block at the time.
1:17.6	That was right before Grunge music was about to hit big and rain over my senior year. But at this point I was still all about
1:27.6	Donnie, Danny, Jordan, Jonathan, and Joey. I was never into the school spirit stuff. I didn't go to games or rallies or dances or
1:38.2	any of the activities I thought that were pretty lame. I had been a licensed driver for about three months and I had a part-time job after school.
1:49.0	Nothing really that sensational going on for me at the time. So that March 3rd that was a Sunday. The
1:59.4	night before, if I had to guess, I was probably up late watching what would be arguably one of the greatest
2:06.3	decades of Saturday Night Live ever.
2:10.0	But I likely didn't make it all the way through.
2:13.0	What I would have never known at the time,
2:17.0	what nobody would have ever known if not for a man named George Holliday
2:22.0	who noticed an incident involving some police activity unfolding outside
2:27.0	his balcony a few minutes after midnight that night.
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