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Rodney King, whose encounter with white police officers in Los Angeles in 1991 vaulted him into the national spotlight, died Sunday at his home in California.

Rodney King had been drinking the night that officers pulled him over on a darkened stretch of Foothill Boulevard. He was acting erratically when he stepped out of the car.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Early Sunday, the story broke with the sad news that Rodney King was found dead at the bottom of his swimming pool in Rialta ...

Rodney King, the man who was at the center of the Los Angeles police brutality case that later sparked the Los Angeles riots died on June 17, 2012. Here is a timeline of events in King's life ...

Rodney King's daughter Lora tells her father's story in a new interactive online exhibit from the University of Southern California.

Spike Lee directs 'Rodney King,' a filmed version of a one-man play by his frequent onscreen collaborator Roger Guenveur Smith.

Rodney King, the black motorist whose brutal on-camera clubbing by white cops led to the 1992 Los Angeles riots, died in his pool.

Rodney King, 47, pauses before the Los Angeles skyline recently. He says he is at peace with what happened to him when police beat him 21 years ago but feels some guilt for the riots that followed ...

The Los Angeles riots 20 years ago this week were sparked by the acquittal of four L.A. police officers in the brutal beating of suspect Rodney King a year earlier. The turbulence that led to more ...