Victim of beating that sparked LA riots dies_美文

Victim of beating that sparked LA riots dies

King recalled that he had been drinking despite being on parole after a 1991 robbery conviction and was headed home from a friend's house when he saw that a police car was following him and panicked, worried he would be sent back to jail.

A man who had quietly stepped outside his home to observe the commotion videotaped most of King's beating by police officers and turned a copy over to a TV station. It was played over and over for the following year, inflaming racial tensions across the country.

But while Los Angeles race relations and the city's police department made strides forward, King kept coming before police and courts, struggling with alcohol addiction and arrests, periodically reappearing publicly for a stint on Celebrity Rehab or a celebrity boxing match.

He spent the last months of his life promoting a memoir he titled The Riot Within: From Rebellion to Redemption.

Questions:

1. How old was Rodney King when he passed?

2. Where were the riots held?

3. Who did the man who videotaped the beating turn a copy of the video over to?

Answers:

1. 47.

2. Los Angeles.

3. A TV Station.

About the broadcaster:

Emily Cheng is an editor at China Daily. She was born in Sydney, Australia and graduated from the University of Sydney with a degree in Media, English Literature and Politics. She has worked in the media industry since starting university and this is the third time she has settled abroad - she interned with a magazine in Hong Kong 2007 and studied at the University of Leeds in 2009.