The brutal beating of Rodney King by the LAPD was caught on amateur videotape by George Holliday. Broadcast widely by news outlets, it is arguably the first video of police brutality to go viral before the internet and the policemen’s acquittal was a catalyst for the Los Angeles riots in 1992. Five days into the rioting and social unrest, King himself appeared on TV, pleading with the public, “Can we all get along?”
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Collection
In ACMI's collection
On display until
16 February 2031
ACMI: Gallery 1
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
P180641
Curatorial section
The Story of the Moving Image → Moving Minds → MM-04. Citizen Journalism → MM-04-C01
Object Types
2D Object
Exhibition Prop
Photographic print/Pictorial
Materials
Graphic