 The decades of frustration, compounded by the tapes, all seemed to converge on the Rodney King trial. Four Los Angeles police officers were charged in the beating, and the video was part of the evidence. It showed the officers hitting King over 50 times with a baton. And when the verdict was read on April 29, 1992, Carroll watched it live on TV. All right, the clerk in one moment will read the verdicts. They put the white paper in the window.