How the late-20th-century battles over race and policing in Los Angeles foreshadowed the Trump era. Worth a thousand words: A still from the video of the 1992 police beating of Rodney King. The ...

(CBS) - Daryl Gates, the lightning rod Los Angeles police chief whose career will be forever linked to Rodney King and the city's deadly 1992 riots, has died after a short battle with bladder cancer.

Gates died at his Newport Beach home with his family at his side, according to a police statement. Gates' brother said in February the former chief had bladder cancer that had spread to a bone near ...

LOS ANGELES - Daryl F. Gates, the blunt former Los Angeles police chief who waged war on violent gangs and skirmished with city leaders until his handling of the Rodney King police beating and ensuing ...