By RITA SHERROW World Scene Writer on Jun 19, 2012, at 11:08 AM Updated on 6/19 at 11:29 AM
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This April 13, 2012, photo shows Rodney King posing for a portrait in Los Angeles. King died Sunday at his home at age 47.
MATT SAYLES/AP Photo, file
VH1 will honor Rodney King and commemorate the 20-year anniversary of the L.A. riots on Wednesday by re-airing an award-winning documentary.
The cable channel will repeat the Emmy-winning "VH1 Rock Docs" presentation of "Uprising: Hip Hop and the L.A. Riots" at 7 p.m. on cable 54.
The film tells the story of the riots in April 1992 from the perspectives of rappers, musicians, police officers and victims who lived through the event as well as King whose video-taped beating by L.A. police officers following a traffic violation stop was considered a touchstone for the event.
It was the acquittal of three of those police officers that sparked the riots as the world watched on television the rapidly escalating events of that week. A mistrial was declared in the fourth officer's case.
It was King who asked the public to stop the violence by saying "Can we just get along?" which helped calm the situation.
The film also includes testimony from well known figures and Hip Hop artists who were affected by or were actual participants in the riots, including: King, Arsenio Hall, Ice T, Professor Todd Boyd of the University of Southern California, civil rights attorney Connie Rice, John Singleton, Too Short, KRS-One, Nas and Henry Watson (one of the "LA Four" convicted of beating Reginald Denny) and more.
King was found dead in his swimming pool Sunday at age 47. Cause of death is considered apparent drowning. An autopsy has been performed but toxicology reports won't be available for several weeks.
King appeared on VH1’s Big Morning Buzz Live last month and gave the following interview.
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