Los Angeles (AFP) – Black and Asian community leaders gathered in Los Angeles on Friday to mark 30 years since the US city was engulfed in violence in the wake of the acquittal of four police officers for the brutal beating of Rodney King. Dozens died and a billion dollars of damage were wrought as anger flared across the multi-ethnic city following the verdicts, which came despite graphic footage of the assault on the Black motorist. “My late father, Rodney King, became synonymous with police brutality to some people. But our family remembers him as a human being — not a symbol,” Lora King, …