"It Was a Big Price for Me, and It Was Also a Big Price for the Ones Who Lost Their Lives"

"It was definitely a turning point. Everybody was tired of having these butterflies in their stomach when it comes to the police, so I'm glad what happened to me happened, and that it changed a lot of things. No [police] chief can be guaranteed eight, 15, 20 years no more. Anybody can get bigheaded once they know the seat cannot be pulled out from under them."

In the Los Angeles Times, Patt Morrison talks with Rodney King, twenty years after the L.A. Riots.

And the Times presents a special online supplement for the anniversary.