Rodney King's daughter fights to keep his memory alive

LOS ANGELES - His name once was synonymous with police brutality. Angry mobs shouted it as they torched buildings. And in some circles, the riots that erupted in the streets of Los Angeles in April 1992 bore his name.

The social upheaval and chaotic violence inspired by Rodney G. King - a black motorist whom Los Angeles Police Department officers bashed with batons and boots 56 times, a trauma that was captured on video and replayed across the world - became a defining moment in the history of Los Angeles, policing and race relations.

But for all the ways that King, who died in 2012, lives on in history and in pop culture, there's no lasting testament in L.A.'s vast landscape that marks his memory.

"Some people saw Rodney King as a flawed martyr," Kerman Maddox, a public affairs consultant who launched a recall effort against then-LAPD Chief Daryl Gates after the