Rodney King

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rodney King, the black motorist whose 1991 videotaped beating by Los Angeles police officers was the touchstone for one of the most destructive race riots in the nation’s history, has died, his publicist said Sunday. King was 47. His death was confirmed to The Associated Press by Suzanne Wickham of Harper Collins, who published King’s 2012 book ’The Riot Within .My Journey from Rebellion to Redemption.’ The 1992 riots, set off by the acquittals of the officers, lasted three days and left