Editing Rodney King (section)

===Holliday's video===
[[File:Kingbeating.jpg|thumb|right|Screenshots of King lying down and being beaten by [[Los Angeles Police Department|LAPD]] officers|297x297px]]
Plumbing salesman and amateur videographer George Holliday's videotape of the beating was shot on his camcorder from his apartment near the intersection of Foothill Boulevard and Osborne Street in [[Lake View Terrace]]. Two days later (March 5), Holliday called LAPD headquarters at Parker Center to let the police department know that he had a videotape of the incident. Still, he could not find anyone interested in seeing the video. He went to [[KTLA]], a local television station,  with his recording. KTLA's [[Warren Griffin Wilson|Warren Wilson]] was the first reporter to take on the story, interviewing King inside his jail ward.<ref> Los Angeles Sentinel Staff. Groundbreaking Reporter Warren Wilson Passes Away. Los Angeles Sentinel. October 9, 2024. https://lasentinel.net/groundbreaking-reporter-warren-wilson-passes-away.html</ref><ref>Warren Wilson Overcame. TV Week. June 27, 2005. https://www.tvweek.com/in-depth/2005/06/warren-wilson-overcame/</ref>
Holliday, whose video camera was in another part of his residence, was unable to retrieve it until the officers were already in the act of beating King.<ref>{{cite news |title=How citizen journalism has changed since George Holliday's Rodney King video |author=Steve Myers |url=http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/top-stories/121687/how-citizen-journalism-has-changed-since-george-hollidays-rodney-king-video/ |date=March 3, 2011 |access-date=August 19, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140821042730/http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/top-stories/121687/how-citizen-journalism-has-changed-since-george-hollidays-rodney-king-video/ |archive-date=August 21, 2014 }}</ref> The footage as a whole became an instant media sensation. Portions were aired numerous times, and it "turned what would otherwise have been a violent, but soon forgotten, encounter between the Los Angeles police and an uncooperative suspect into one of the most widely watched and discussed incidents of its kind".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/lapd/kingvideo.html|title=The Holliday Videotape, George Holliday Video of King Beating|publisher=University of Missouri Kansas City Law School}}</ref>

Several "[[copwatch]]" organizations subsequently were started throughout the United States to safeguard against police abuse, including an umbrella group, October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality.<ref><!--{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/speaktruthtopower/issue_police.html |title=Police Brutality |work=Speak Truth to Power |publisher=pbs.org |access-date=July 1, 2012}}-->[https://www.pbs.org/speaktruthtopower/issue_police.html PBS.org] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507221423/http://www.pbs.org/speaktruthtopower/issue_police.html |date=May 7, 2016 }} The ACLU {{cite web|url=https://www.aclu.org/police/gen/14614pub19971201.html#credits |title=Fighting Police Abuse: A Community Action Manual |access-date=November 9, 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091019064709/https://www.aclu.org/police/gen/14614pub19971201.html |archive-date=October 19, 2009 }} draw connections between this event and the subsequent activities of many organizations designed to oversee police activities.</ref> In 1992, these clips were added in the opening credits of ''[[Malcolm X (1992 film)|Malcolm X]]''.<ref>{{cite news|title=Holliday, Lee Settle 'Malcolm X' Dispute : Courts: Filmmaker reportedly agrees to pay cameraman about $100,000 for use of King beating footage.|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|last=Pristin|first=Terry|date=October 2, 1992|access-date=October 7, 2024|url-access=subscription|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-10-02-me-113-story.html}}</ref> On September 19, 2021, Holliday died from complications of COVID-19.<ref>{{cite news|title=George Holliday, Who Shot The Video Of Officers Beating Rodney King, Has Died|website=NPR|author=((The Associated Press))|date=September 21, 2021|access-date=October 7, 2024|url=https://www.npr.org/2021/09/21/1039236256/george-holliday-who-shot-the-video-of-officers-beating-rodney-king-has-died}}</ref>