After an appeals court moved their trial out of Los Angeles to neighboring and police-friendly Simi Valley, the officers were acquitted.

The Rodney King beating video and the Simi Valley LAPD trial exemplify this concept of looking as a social practice. The differences between the strategies of the prosecution and the defense lie in the old and new views of vision and looking. I explained the Rodney King thing to her because I think that's where a lot of young people get a lot of their impression of Simi Valley as racist from. Despite the videotape, a jury in Simi Valley concluded a year later that the evidence was not sufficient to convict the officers. A short documentary concerning the events surrounding the Rodney King beating and subsequent Los Angeles Riots of 1992. Simi Valley historian Pat Havens says her city’s reputation has been tarnished by its association with the Rodney King beating trial, which took place in Simi Valley. The venture was unable to garner success and soon folded. riots erupt in l.a. after cops acquitted in rodney king case in 1992 Advertisement "Time and again, King controlled the action," one juror was quoted as saying by ABC News. Rodney Glen King (April 2, 1965 – June 17, 2012) was an American construction worker turned writer after surviving an act of police brutality by the Los Angeles Police Department. . Simi Valley is located at 34°16'16" North, 118°44'22" West (34.271078, −118.739428) with an elevation of 700–1,000 ft (210–300 m) above sea level. Rodney King; Rodney Glen King (known to friends as "Glen") found himself thrust into the spotlight--both literally and figuratively--after he led California Highway Patrol officers on a high speed chase through the north Los Angeles suburbs.
King was later arrested at least eleven times on a variety of charges, including domestic abuse and hit and run.
. Simi Valley has a complicated history with racism in Southern California. On March 3, 1991, King was beaten by LAPD officers after a high-speed chase during his arrest for drunk driving on I-210. The lessons of the Rodney King case should give us pause. In the Simi Valley trial, defendant Briseno became the prosecution's best witness. Polls taken shortly after the incident showed that over 90% of Los Angeles residents who saw the videotape believed that the police used excessive force in arresting King. Rodney King was awarded $3.8 million in damages from the City of Los Angeles. He invested most of this money in founding a hip-hop record label, "Straight Alta-Pazz Records". Simi Valley is connected to the nearby San Fernando Valley by the Santa Susana Pass in the extreme east of Simi Valley.