Question: What African American who was beaten by Los Angeles Police Department in March 1991 was referenced in the song "Mrs. Offider" by Lil Wayne?
Context: The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), officially the City of Los Angeles Police Department, is the law enforcement agency for the city of Los Angeles, California, United States.  With 9,843 officers and 2,773 civilian staff, it is the third-largest municipal police department in the United States, after the New York City Police Department and the Chicago Police Department.  The department serves an area of 498 sqmi and a population of 4,030,904 people. The Los Angeles Police Department Metropolitan Division, also known as Metro, is an elite division within the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD).  The Metro Division, which also contains LAPD's Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team, contains seven platoons of specially-trained police officers.  It is tasked with numerous crime-fighting duties including solving major crimes, surveillance, providing counter-terrorism details and attending high-risk barricaded situations, such as a hostage situation. The Fuhrman tapes are 13 hours of taped interviews given by Los Angeles police officer Mark Fuhrman to writer Laura McKinny between 1985 and 1994.  The tapes include many racist slurs and remarks made by Fuhrman, including uses of the word "nigger," descriptions of police brutality perpetrated on black suspects, misogynist slurs and descriptions of the harassment and intimidation of female Los Angeles police officers by male officers.  Portions of the tapes were admitted into evidence during the O. J. Simpson murder case.  In the tapes Fuhrman also made many references to the "planting of evidence" and implied that police brutality and evidence planting were common practice in the Los Angeles Police Department. Rodney Glen King (April 2, 1965 – June 17, 2012) was a taxi driver who became internationally known after a tape was released of him being beaten on March 3, 1991, by Los Angeles Police Department officers following a high-speed car chase.  A witness, George Holliday, videotaped much of the beating from his balcony, and sent the footage to local news station KTLA.  The footage shows four officers surrounding King, several of them striking him repeatedly, while other officers stood by.  Parts of the footage were aired around the world, and raised public concern about police treatment of minorities in the United States. Assistant Police Chief Will Pope is a fictional character featured in TNT's "The Closer", portrayed by J. K. Simmons.  Pope is the Assistant Chief for Operations of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD).  Pope, along with Commander Taylor, is one of two characters on the show who has a real-life equivalent, in this case Assistant Chief Earl Paysinger, Director and Commanding Officer of Office of Operations, Los Angeles Police Department. The Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is the head of the Los Angeles Police Department. "Mrs. Officer" is the fourth single from Lil Wayne's album "Tha Carter III".  Its lyrics explore the tension between criminal suspects and police officers by means of the image of sexual tension in the relationship between Lil Wayne and a female police officer; it even goes so far as to reference Rodney King and police brutality, a sexual metaphor which is given almost ambiguous relation.  The song features Bobby Valentino and Kidd Kidd, and is produced by Deezle.  The song officially debuted on September 9, 2008 It was ranked the No. 25 Hip-Hop song of 2008 by MTV. LAPD: Life on the Beat (sometimes referred to individually as LAPD or Life on the Beat) is an American reality television series that follows officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, as they respond to various incidents within their precincts' jurisdiction.  The program aired in first-run syndication from September 11, 1995 to September 10, 1999 (premiering in 1997 in Portugal).  Like its contemporary, "COPS", "LAPD" followed police officers on patrol and during investigations; however unlike "COPS", "Life on the Beat" only featured police officers from the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD).  The series was originally titled simply "LAPD" for its first season in 1995, before adopting the expanded title in 1996, in conjunction with the introduction of an upgraded graphical look. Willie L. Williams (October 1, 1943 – April 26, 2016) was the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) from 1992 to 1997, taking over after chief Daryl Gates' resignation following the 1992 Los Angeles riots.  Williams was the first African-American police commissioner of both the Philadelphia Police Department and the LAPD.  During his term as chief of the LAPD, he tried to create a positive image of the department and close the rift created between the police and black neighborhoods by the violent arrest of Rodney King in 1991. The Los Angeles Airport Police Division (sometimes referred to as "LAWAPD" or LAXPD") is the largest police agency in the United States dedicated exclusively to 24-hour airport activities.  LAXPD is the fourth largest law enforcement agency in Los Angeles County, with more than 1,100 law enforcement, security and staff.  It also has the largest civilian Airport security force in the nation.  LAX Police is a division of Los Angeles Department of Airports, Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA).  The City department that owns and operates two airports in Southern California: Los Angeles International, and Van Nuys (general aviation).  Although currently working very closely with the Los Angeles Police Department, the Los Angeles Airport Police Department is a separate entity, primarily due to the Airport Police having specialized training and funding resources.
Answer: Rodney King