- Wikipedia: Rodney King
User-created biography of Rodney Glen King, Includes notes on how the trial following King's videoptaped beating by LAPD officers officers sparked the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King
- 1992 Los Angeles Riots@
dir.yahoo.com/.../1990s/1992_Los_Angeles_Riots
- Famous American Trials: Rodney King Beating
Includes chronology, images and clips from the videotape of LAPD officers beating Rodney King, trial transcripts, photos, quotes, and links.
www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/lapd/lapd.html
- crimsonbird.com: Rodney King and the Los Angeles Riots
Summary of the Rodney King police brutality case, the subsequent trial, and the 1991 Los Angeles riots.
www.crimsonbird.com/history/rodneyking.htm
- PBS Frontline: The Legacy of Rodney King
From the Frontline special LAPD Blues. Features interviews with people involved in the Rodney King case and its aftermath.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/lapd/race/king.html
- Salon: Rethinking Rodney King
Interview with Washington Post reporter Lou Cannon, who reexamines the King case in the book Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD.
www.salonmag.com/news/1998/03/13news.html
- On This Day: April 29
Offers the full text of the April 29, 1997 New York Times report on the four policemen acquitted in the Rodney King beating.
www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/990429onthisday_big.html
- NY Times Archives: More on Rodney King
List of articles and related books on Rodney King. Free registration required.
www.nytimes.com/books/98/02/08/home/rodney.html
- About.com: Rodney King and the LA Riots
Directory of web sites and articles about the videotaped beating of Rodney King by LAPD officers, as well as the trial and ensuing riots.
racerelations.about.com/cs/lariots
- CNN: Rodney King Case Returns To Court
Featuring article and sound files.
www.cnn.com/US/9602/koon_powell
- TIME Newsfile: Rodney King Riots
Includes a premium archive of Time articles about the Rodney King beating and trial, as well as the Los Angeles riots that followed the acquittal of the officers charged with beating King.
www.time.com/time/newsfiles/rodneyking
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