Rodney King’s plea measures his lasting meaning

By Jesse Washington

Published June 18, 2012 3:54am ET

Rodney King’s plea measures his lasting meaning — FILE - This May 1, 1992 file photo shows Rodney King making a statement at a Los Angeles news conference. 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, June 17, 2012. He was 47. (AP Photo/David Longstreath, file) | David Longstreath

Twenty years later, Rodney King’s simple yet profound question still lingers, from the street where Trayvon Martin died all the way to the White House:

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