The L.A. Riots, 30 years later

Lora King was 7 years old when she saw the black and white video on television news, grainy footage of four police officers savagely beating a Black man.

First, she thought how odd it was, that this man on the T.V. shared her father's name. As she looked around at the faces of her family, she realized it was her dad. Then she thought, he can't survive this.

Lora King thought she was watching her father die.

When she saw him afterwards, she didn't recognize his face. It was so swollen and bruised. She was terrified of this stranger, until the man smiled. It was her father's unmistakable smile.

Rodney King survived that beating, but his daughter says he carried its scars until he died in 2012. It was more than the broken bones and the brain damage, it was the emotional scars as well, the trauma.

When she thinks of her father now, she doesn't think of that video. She thinks