Rodney King (2017)

25 years ago four LAPD officers were acquitted in a state court for beating King sparking three days of rioting that left 53 people dead Now around the anniversary this Spike Leeproduced oneman show Roger Guenver Smith will be streaming on Netflix A complex semitragic figure King drowned in 2012 His life was rarely smooth or simple its telling makes for a sober moving watch