As a reporter , Sipchen covered the 1992 Los Angeles riots that erupted in Los Angeles following the trial of police officers involved in the beating of motorist Rodney King and shared in the newspaper 's Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting in 1993 for that reportage . Sipchen published the first profile of Reginald Denny , the motorist whose nationally televised attack became an icon of the inchoate rage vented during the riots
nationally televised attack
Attack on Reginald Denny
Bob Sipchen