Obituary: George Holliday fortuitously filmed the beating of Rodney King

The Handycam was new, a Valentine’s gift for Maria which would give them both fun. Already he’d caught some of the filming of “Terminator 2” in the biker bar across the street, the scene where Arnold Schwarzenegger came in naked, stole a biker’s clothes and took off on his Harley. That was on the same tape he was using to capture the ruckus outside, and later on he was going to film a friend running in a marathon.

His video, starting a bit late, showed a group of white officers who had stopped a car. Four of them approached the driver, later identified as Rodney King, a black man on parole for a robbery. He had been driving wildly with alcohol in his blood. In the first 81 seconds of the video the officers beat and kicked King, on whatever part of his body they could hit, 56 times.

For he was still a plumber, though freelance to avoid hassle, still scraping round at the back of sinks and fitting new pipes to boilers. So much for theshow, the biopic and the George Holliday crime-fighting toy, none of which happened. An expensive lawyer failed to get his tape back from the, so he lost Arnie and the marathon too, and though he owned the broadcast rights they did not earn him much. In 2020 he put his camera up for auction for $225,000 to buy a new place, but it drew no bids.

Saving a life was surely something to be proud of, and a beating like that was out of line. So he did not regret that he had made the tape. But it cost him his marriage, in fact two marriages, for more or less nothing. It gave thea very bad rap, one he felt they didn’t deserve. And he couldn’t understand, being a plumber and not into politics, why race was always such a big thing.

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