In comparing Tyre Nichols to Rodney King, we’re missing this point about policing Lora Dene King, center, reacts while watching video of Tyre Nichols being beaten by Memphis, Tenn., police.

Rodney King, the black motorist whose violent encounter with white Los Angeles police officers after a car chase in 1991 was captured on home video and helped prompt one of the worst race riots in ...

Rodney King, the black motorist whose 1991 videotaped beating by Los Angeles police officers was the touchstone for one of the most destructive race riots in the nation's history, died Sunday. He ...

But Rodney King was all Smith’s doing, says Lee. Smith conceived the one-man show shortly after King’s death in 2012 and came to Lee to direct it after performing the show for years.

Rodney King, the black motorist whose violent arrest by white Los Angeles police officers in 1991 was captured on a grainy home video that helped spark one of the worst race riots in U.S. history ...

Rodney King speaks with fans before presenting his autobiographical book 'The Riot Within...My Journey from Rebellion to Redemption' at the Eso Won Book Store in Los Angeles, April 30, 2012.

Rodney King, the man at the center of the Los Angeles riots, was found dead Sunday morning. He was 47.

LOS ANGELES — Rodney King holds in his scarred hands a fishhook and a bag full of big white worms. He crouches on a dock at the edge of a lake on the outskirts of Ontario.

“Rodney King as an individual was never really the point,” said Melina Abdullah, a professor of Pan-African Studies at Cal State L.A.

Rodney King, the black motorist whose brutal on-camera clubbing by white cops led to the 1992 Los Angeles riots when the officers were aquitted, died Sunday in his pool. Just 47, King was bedeviled… ...

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. -- Rodney King had been drinking and was on drugs when he plunged into a swimming pool and accidentally drowned in June, a coroner's report released Thursday concluded.

Rodney King: Theater Review L.A.'s late, tortured symbol of its continued struggle with racism is embodied in a one-man show at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City.