The Video Camera That Caught Rodney King’s Beating Is Selling For $225K At Auction
Written by DJ Sight on July 28, 2020
Everything is for sale, well a non working old school video camera made by Sony from nearly 30 years ago is going up for auction.
In the days before cell phone footage caught crimes on video, there was it’s grandfather. A Sony camcorder, that caught the vicious beating of the late Rodney King from the LAPD back in 1991.
The cameras bid starting out at $225,000.
The camera caught the footage of nine police officers attack in Rodney King back on March 3rd 1991.
Rodney King was struck more than 50 times for batons and Shout with the stun gun after being stopped for speeding on a Los Angeles Street.
George Holliday who’s the owner of the camera and the person that videotape the beating is the selling the camera at the auction.
https://nypost.com/2020/07/28/camcorder-that-recorded-rodney-king-beating-up-for-auction/
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