koon, guilty. [ cheers ] >> i had my arm on larry powell's shoulder.ed over to him, and i said, we're going down, bud. >> reporter: and what was his reaction? >> he tensed. he tensed. >> we, the jury, in the above-entitled cause find the defendant guilty. [ cheers ] >> reporter: two out of the four officers are found guilty. >> it was like, god damn. i just hope we just get one. i hope we just get one on that. if we get one, we're good. so to get the two, i was really happy. >> sergeant stacey koon and officer laurence powell were both sentenced to 2 1/2 years in federal prison. the verdict seemed to satisfy the community. no riots erupted. it was here at the roybal federal building where guilty verdicts gave rodney king the justice he was looking for. but one more trial was still to come. rodney king's lawsuit would determine how much money, if any, he received for his injuries. king's civil suit against the city of los angeles was his third trial in three years. >> i fit this profile of the conservative african-american. >> reporter: cynthia kelley,

one of his favorite artists is the irrepressible jeff koons.le cornucopia of koonsian genius. all, of course, painted and sculpted by hired craftsmen. koons is nothing if not worshipful of eli broad. >> you know, morley and eli, i just have to say standing here, what a fantastic location. i mean look at the natural light that is coming in on these works. it's just a tremendous gallery. >> and the balloon dog? what does it do to you? do you get some kind of emotional kick? >> i do. it makes me smile, it makes me feel good. it make me proud, and it especially makes me proud when i see young people and others looking at the work. and it introduces them to art in a way that no other work really does. >> and a piece that quite honestly mystifies me. michael jackson and a chimp, is it? >> michael jackson and bubbles. when i made this series, the banality series. >> series of banality? >> of images. i was trying to communicate to people that whatever you respond to, it's perfect. >> if you find koons' art-speak incomprehensible, well just wait. >> the

and as you know now, jeff koons' works have gone for $25 million and more. >> safer: and nearby, arguablypowerful dealer in the art world, the famously reticent larry gagosian, owner of 11 galleries round the world. he reluctantly graced us with a few words of wisdom. at least say hello. >> larry gagosian: hey, morley. you always look so dapper. i love that. >> safer: this place has become one of the places that someone like yourself have to show at? >> gagosian: yeah, for me, it's a place to sell art and it's a place to make money. the art fair has become a huge part of our business. >> safer: how have china and russia changed the art market? >> gagosian: it's been a huge factor. i think the wealth in russia, the middle east, asia has changed it, changed it dramatically. >> safer: just how dramatically can be seen in this graph. in orange is the contemporary art market's performance compared to the grey, which is the s&p stock index. much of that dramatic rise is a result of those new billionaires from china and russia parking their money in art. >> maria baibakova: you have to tell me a

willem de kooning did portraits that became highly charged responses to the women who were his modelsthe abstract expressionists wanted to paint on the same level of quality as the old masters or as, let's say, the best of the school of paris-- picasso, matisse, mondrian. they were striving for excellence. they found they did better work when they went abstract. mark rothko chose a path to pure expression by using only gradations of color on his canvases. pollock's vision and greenberg's theory were explored by a second generation. many acknowledged that helen frankenthaler adapted pollock's technique in a way that made him more accessible to other artists. she stained her canvas with highly diluted paint to achieve these haunting effects in mountains and sea. the abstract expressionist movement dominated the world of western art for over a decade. by the mid fifties, they were established, only to be superseded by a new avant-garde. the postwar world is characterized by an acceleration of speed-- speed of travel, of information, of communication, indeed, speed of change itself. a sty

experience. >> reporter: as for the officers convicted in the rodney king beating, both powell and koon southern california. they declined our request to be interviewed. >> they've picked up their lives and put them back together. >> reporter: do you think the officers, if they could do it all over again, would they do anything differently? >> they'd walk away. let him go. >> reporter: let him go. even though he's breaking the law? >> uh-huh. >> reporter: why? >> because look at what happened to them. look at what happened to them. why would they want that to happen again? to them or to anyone? >> i think mr. king has told the truth. >> reporter: the king case also had a profound impact on the lawyers who argued the case on opposite sides. >> if i was to have been able to write a script for a case, this would have been a script. that afforded me an opportunity to be involved in helping our society progress to the point of peace and civilization. >> it's all how the jury looks at it. history has recorded that rodney king incident as a racist beating of a black man by four white police of

sergeant koons comes in with the taser, lights me up. and i'm like, whoa, numb, feels like getting whipped with an tension cord. just the current going through my body. and then all i heard was we're going to kill you [ bleep ]. >> reporter: police believed at the time that king was on pcp and that gave him superhuman strength to withstand the blows. rodney king tells a different story. >> it was malt beer. but no pcp. had never done any pcp. i couldn't put had i hands behind my back because you're shocking me. the taser's going through me. and this guy wouldn't stop tasing me. but then they started beating me. honestly, i just wanted them to finish me off because the pain was so bad. >> reporter: king spent three days at the men's central jail, and despite the high-speed chase and the alcohol test two times the legal limit, he was never charged. >> the police lady standing over me. she said don't worry about it, they seen everything, they got it on tape. and i'm holding on to my little bloody clothes, trying to -- because that's the onl

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two of the officers, stacy koon and lawrence powell were subsequently convicted, and sentenceed to twond a half years in jail. truck driver, reginald denny survived his injuries. three of the men who attacked him were convicted and imprisoned. rodney king, won a $3.8 million settlement from the city. most of it gone, and he just published a new memoir. and for south los angeles as the neighborhood is now known. poverty and unemployment both remain high. the crime is down. police are for more representative of the community that they serve. ahead, between the covers. >> charles: we've uncovered artifacts from the recent past. they're the covers we might have seen in the new yorker. not high catching competition. mo rocca has been sorting through the archives. >> you can't judge a book or a magazine by its cover, but you can certainly judge the covers themselves. and for decades after the february 1925 debut issue, the new yorker magazine's kofrps projected a sophistication befitting the literary pedigree. amusing. ironic. sometimes iconic, like sal steinberg's view of the world from new

. >> thank you for the question, senator koons.when you look at the testimony we submit it, you'll see we detail a number of the seminal racial profiling cases. in fact, some brought by david harris. what might be instructive to read a piece of legislation is essential is to track when the incident occurred and why the case was decided because you will note that many instances in the one i'm looking at now, you were looking at a span of several years of time between when you get pulled over by a police officer in a highway in the case of robert wilkins and ultimately win that case was decided by a court. confirm any minority group members, especially those in our communities and families who lack resources to hire private attorneys, it is not simple or economic to retain private counsel, even when you've been wrong. we retain many come in many in individuals simply because we lack resources. we take on cases where we think we have the ability to have a high impact and change systemically at the highest levels. a number of heartbrea