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.
Please try again later. On April 4th, 1968, an assassin took the life-but not the dream -- of Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior. Reverend King was the most prominent civil rights leader of the 20th century. King had traveled to Memphis to support the 1,300 striking black sanitation workers with a peaceful march scheduled for April 8rh and traveled to Memphis on April 3rd.