소개
로드니 글렌 킹(Rodney Glen King, 1965년 4월 2일 ~ 2012년 6월 17일)은 아프리카계 미국인 건설인으로 로스앤젤레스 폭동의 당사자이다. 1991년 3월 3일 신호를 어겨 백인 경찰들에게 구타를 당하고, 그 경찰들이 무죄를 선고받자 이로 인해 흑인 사회의 분노를 유발했다.
Rodney Glen King was an African American victim of police brutality. On March 3, 1991, he was severely beaten by officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) during his arrest after a high speed pursuit for driving while intoxicated on Interstate 210. An uninvolved resident, George Holliday, saw and filmed the incident from his nearby balcony and sent the footage, which showed King on the ground being beaten, to a local news station, KTLA. The station broadcast the film, which was rebroadcast by other stations, with this exposure precipitating riots.
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