Dermot Mulroney. Dermot Mulroney (born October 31, 1963) is an American actor. Acting since the 1980s, he is known for his roles in the films Young Guns, Samantha, Where the Day Takes You, My Best Friend's Wedding, The Last Outlaw, About Schmidt, and August: Osage County. Mulroney played the main antagonist of NBC's Crisis, Francis Gibson.
The 1991 videotaped beating of Rodney King by L.A.P.D. officers, and subsequent riots triggered by the acquittal of the officers involved, rocked L.A. and the nation. The events brought to the forefront concerns about racism and police brutality within the L.A.P.D.
George Holliday, the man with the camera who shot Rodney King while police beat him, got burned, too. Rodney King, three days after his videotaped beating in Los Angeles on March 6, 1991. Rodney King would have lived and died a complete unknown, were it not for the most famous home video ever made. Shot on a dark Los Angeles street the morning of March 2, 1991, it instantly turned King into a worldwide symbol of police abuse and racial conflict.