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🗓️ 29 April 2025
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April 29, 1992. A jury acquits four police officers in the beating of Black motorist Rodney King, sparking six days of violence and unrest in Los Angeles. This episode originally aired in 2022.
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0:31.1 | It's just before 1 a.m. on March 3, 1991. |
0:35.8 | At their apartment in the San Fernando Valley, George and Maria Holiday wake to an |
0:40.3 | unfamiliar sound. George tries to shut out the noise and fall back asleep, but the sound only gets |
0:46.4 | louder, and soon it's accompanied by police sirens. George and Maria get out of bed and walk to |
0:52.8 | their balcony to investigate the source of the commotion. |
0:56.1 | Outside on the street below, George spots a parked white Hyundai. |
1:00.5 | He watches his police cars surround the vehicle which is illuminated by a helicopter spotlight. |
1:05.9 | Soon, four officers approach the car. |
1:08.7 | Instinctively, George runs back inside to grab his brand new video camera. |
1:13.9 | He rushes back to the balcony and presses record just in time to capture one of the police |
1:18.7 | officers striking the Hyundai's driver, a young black man across the side of his head. |
1:24.6 | George watches as a young man falls to the ground and the four officers |
1:28.3 | surrounding. While George looks on in films, dozens of police officers also watch from the |
1:34.5 | perimeter as the young black man is kicked, stomped, and struck 56 times before then being |
1:40.3 | hog-tied and dragged to the side of the road to wait for an ambulance. |
1:50.7 | The driver of the Hyundai, shown in George's video, will soon be identified as 25-year-old Rodney King. In the early morning of March 3, 1991, he was caught speeding on a Los Angeles |
1:57.0 | freeway. But he didn't pull over, fearing that his probation for a robbery offense |
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