This 1991 image from video showing Los Angeles police beating a black man named <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/17/us/obit-rodney-king/index.html">Rodney King</a> brought simmering racial tensions in the city to a boil. The footage showed LAPD officers striking King more than 50 times with their batons. Four officers were charged in the beating, and when they were acquitted, the verdict <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/18/us/los-angeles-riots-fast-facts/index.html">sparked riots throughout Los Angeles.</a><br />