George Holliday died at the age of 61 on Sunday. You might not recognize the name. But, even though he was a plumber by trade, he shot one of the most influential films of the twentieth century, one that heralded an era when the power of video can shake the media, politics, and the culture to its core. “Holliday was awakened by a traffic stop outside his San Fernando Valley home on the night of March 3, 1991. He went outside to film it with his new video camera.” George Holliday, Who Shot The Video Of Officers Beating Rodney King, Has Died. As far as I can remember, this was one of the first times people refused to believe what they were seeing with their own eyes, which is now a widely accepted motus operandi. At the peak of the LA riots, Rodney King famously asked, Can we all get along? Man, did we get that answer wrong…