By Julissa Catalan
Never was nationwide attention on racially charged incidents greater than in the early 1990s, when the Rodney King beating and subsequent riots as well as the O.J. Simpson trial captivated America.
People’s opinions of each case largely fell along racial lines—with Blacks protesting following the acquittal of the four white officers who beat King, and many believing that the same would have happened had Simpson been found guilty of murdering his white wife, Nicole Brown Simpson.
