The beating took only two minutes, leaving Rodney G. King, an unemployed construction worker, with severe physical and mental damage, including memory loss.

The beatings came after the announcement that four white police officers had been acquitted in the beating of Rodney G. King.

The low point of that era came with the beating of Rodney G. King and the subsequent riots.

It was April 29, the day the four policemen who beat Rodney G. King were acquitted.

But civil rights leaders say the case of Rodney G. King shows how pervasive and how misunderstood racism remains.

During the 1992 riots after the beating of Rodney G. King, it served as a neighborhood refuge.

No charges have been filed against the motorist, Rodney G. King, who was released this morning after spending about seven hours in custody.

Rodney G. King lived much of his life on Royce Street, unknown to the world at large.

There is no more powerful example than the case of the Los Angeles police officers who beat Rodney G. King, a black man, in 1991.

The reaction to the amateur video of the Rodney G. King beating testifies to this.