In the early morning hours of March 3, 1991, a plumbing salesman named George Holliday would alter the course of U.S. history.
He did so by simply pointing a new Sony video camera at the commotion unfolding less than 100 feet from his apartment balcony in the San Fernando Valley.
What Holliday filmed was the brutal beating by four LAPD officers of Rodney King. The subsequent acquittal of those officers on April 29, 1992, sparked the Los Angeles riots, a violent chapter of civil unrest that resulted in 63 deaths and 12,000 arrests.
Holliday's video is up there with Abraham Zapruder's 8mm film of John F. Kennedy's assassination in terms of sheer scrutiny and for its lasting place in American infamy.
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