George Holliday, who videotaped L.A. police beating Rodney King, dies of covid-19 complications

As he regarded by means of the viewfinder, Mr. Holliday noticed King pressured to the bottom, the place police kicked him, shot him with Tasers and beat him with batons, breaking his cheekbone, cranium bones and ankle. “It felt like I used to be an inch from demise,” King later mentioned. The assault adopted an eight-mile chase wherein King, who had been ingesting and was on parole for a theft conviction, tried to keep away from being stopped for dashing.