Archy Lee: The Rodney King of Gold Rush California

Image from:”The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom” By Wilbur Henry Siebert, Albert Bushnell HartEdition: 2Published by Macmillan, 1898, pg. 26[1]), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=48283078

In March 1991, California and the world were transfixed by the video of Rodney King being brutally beaten by Los Angeles Police Department officers. The public remained transfixed throughout the legal proceedings, both criminal and civil, which followed. The acquittal of the officers who beat King on April 29, 1992 sparked the 1992 Los Angeles Protests, Riots, or Uprising (depending on your point of…