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Race and Rage: The Beating of Rodney King

Don Lemon interviews Rodney King about the infamous beating he suffered at the hands of LAPD officers in 1991, the riots that erupted in 1992 after the officers were exonerated of using excessive force by a jury and his life since. Lemon also examines the relationship between the LAPD and the black community; and how Los Angeles has eased the racial polarization of the early 1990s.


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