George Holliday, man who filmed Rodney King video that forever changed LA, dies
by Steve Marble, Los Angeles Times
Sep 20, 2021
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES — The video was less than nine minutes long, dark, grainy and badly out of focus. But it changed L.A. in ways that were unfathomable and dragged George Holliday into a life he never bargained for.
Shot with a bulky Sony Super8 Handycam, the video of the Rodney King beating in 1991 tore open a city already heaving with racial tension, an era when the Los Angeles Police Department was all but an
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