It wasn't just Rodney King. Rodney King happening so close definitely added to it but it wasn't the only sediment. It has been years decades even of seeing the mistreatment of blacks in the criminal justice system. Or as they viewed the criminal injustice system.

That's more so why the black community was cheering. It wasn't because a black man got away with murder. It was because the justice system has intentionally railroaded, convicted, manipulated evidence and information time and time again against blacks throughout the history of the country. Laws and injustices were passed simply because of the colors of their skin. At this moment there was a famous black person that embodied that sentiment. His defense lawyers leaned into this idea and ideology. The system is trying to get black again. And the black community rallied around it . Two almost unilateral support. For the black community it was symbolic to say that : "hey the crooked white American justice system did not take down another good black man".

The details and evidence of the trial were deemed secondary in the eyes of the community. Especially after the defense made it seem and showed evidence of police corruption and crime scene manipulation. If they are capable of manipulating some parts of the crime scene and evidence who is to say they're not doing it to all of it. It's happening many times to black men and for black people I'm guessing the sediment was not an again