As the Gulf War came to an end, the clock of 1991 ticked into March.
At the beginning of March, on the I-210 freeway in Los Angeles, California, a trivial incident occurred.
A black man named Rodney King was stopped by the police for drunk driving and was about to be penalized.
Drunk driving, in a country like America that runs on wheels, happens every day, and this is not the Prohibition era.
Generally speaking, the police would arrest the driver, take him to the station for a few days, administer punishment and education, confiscate the driver's license, and that would be the end of it — standard procedure.
But in the Los Angeles area, where racial discrimination was resurging, white police officers beat the black man Rodney King, leaving him with a battered face.
