
Riot Within
On a dark street, what began as a private moment between a citizen and the police became a national outrage.
Rodney Glen King grew up in the Altadena Pasadena section of Los Angeles with four siblings, a loving mother, and an alcoholic father. Soon young Rodney followed in Dad''s stumbling steps, beginning a lifetime of alcohol abuse.
King had been drinking the night of March 3, 1991, when he engage...
On a dark street, what began as a private moment between a citizen and the police became a national outrage.
Rodney Glen King grew up in the Altadena Pasadena section of Los Angeles with four siblings, a loving mother, and an alcoholic father. Soon young Rodney followed in Dad''s stumbling steps, beginning a lifetime of alcohol abuse.
King had been drinking the night of March 3, 1991, when he engage...