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Rodney King's beating: True Crime Rewind | Banfield
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5:04Now PlayingNewsNation's "Banfield," in this edition of "True Crime Rewind," looks back at the grainy nine-minute video that changed America. In 1991, a man with a camcorder captured Los Angeles police beating Rodney King, a drunk-driving suspect. If not for that balcony witness, the world might never have heard King’s name — and L.A. might never have erupted in riots.
Ashleigh Banfield is *the* definitive authority on the nation’s biggest true crime stories. A veteran award-winning journalist, Ashleigh brings a sharp focus to the crime stories gripping America, distilling facts and analyzing context in a way which captures viewers’ interests and imaginations. No one knows the prosecution and the defendants’ cases better than BANFIELD, all the while keeping the victim at the heart of every story we tell – just another reason NewsNation is truly News for All Americans.
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