Rodney King Beating Video is a videotape
filmed by George Holliday that turned what
would otherwise have been a violent, but
soon forgotten, encounter between Los
Angeles police and Rodney King into the most
widely watched and discussed incidents of
its kind. The 1992 Los Angeles Riots,
also known as the Rodney King Riots
are mostly associated with this beating by LAPD.
Before there
was YouTube, before
anyone had ever heard the words "Viral
Video" there was Rodney King
Beating Video. Rodney
King would have lived and died
complete unknown, were it not for the
most famous home-video ever made
Rodney King Beating Video. First
Ever Viral Video.
¨George Holliday (1959-2021) inspired us on how everyday people have the power to document an historic event that might otherwise be overlooked. His famous King's Video was an early example of the citizen journalism to come. It seared into the national consciousness and still remains as one of the most widely watched of its kind.¨ |
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FROM
RODNEY KING TO GEORGE FLOYD
1991 RODNEY KING
beating by LAPD. 1992 LOS
ANGELES RIOTS known as the
Rodney King Uprising. 1995 O.J
SIMPSON verdict given racial
tension and mistrust in the
police. 2020 GEORGE FLOYD´s
murder echoes the memories of
Rodney King Beating are still
raw.
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30
YEARS AND NOTHING HAS CHANGED
The
story of George Holliday´s First
Ever Viral Video
This is the
story of little known maker of the First Ever Viral
Video. George
Holliday, the man who pioneered citizen
journalism, captured the history-making
video that changed television news forever.
The major networks shocked Americans showing
LAPD officers beating King more than 50
times with wooden batons and shocked him
with an electric stun gun. Before the local
TV station paid him a cent, it aired the
tape on its evening news show. From there,
it went viral on the national cable and news
networks and became the most famous home
video of all time. But Was King and what we
saw on that videotape the whole
story? Watch
the VIDEO
¨ THE WITNESS VIDEO CAMERA¨
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This is the video camera used by George Holliday on 3 March 1991 to record the Los Angeles Police Department beating Rodney King. With this camera, George inspired us on how everyday people have the power to document an historic event that might otherwise be overlooked. His famous King's Video was an early example of the citizen journalism to come. It seared into the national consciousness and still remains as one of the most widely watched of its kind. The Sony Video8 Handycam model CCD-F77, a visual example of the pre-smart phone video cameras in use during the 1990s. Witness of the brutal beating it was retained by
the fbi as part of the evidence used in
court and then returned to him in 2015.
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