Friday, June 22, 2012

Rodney King key figure in LA riots dead at 47 King's peaceful message outlasts him L.A. whose beating led to found pool autopsy set today Plea of who died Sunday still echoes 20 years after Victim Police Brutality That Spurned Riots Dead [Rip] Dies Beating had long line runins with police Man Center Los Angeles EXCLUSIVE Demoted Bluray Clip At Age Leonard Pitts Jr. On the death a hapless icon Comment on flawed martyr 911 call details moments Editorial | Profiling study welcome move

Rodney King's Buds -- He Was a Professional Pot Smoker Rodney King was an expert pot smoker ... and there's no way marijuana could have caused him to go off the hinges and act like a maniac on the night he died ... so say King's smoking buddies, who run his local weed dispensary. Ever since… Annette John-Hall: The many sides of Rodney King How will history remember Rodney King? Unwilling symbol of police brutality? Unlikely advocate for us getting along? Unrepentant drunk? That's the question I've pondered since I heard the news Sunday that King was dead at 47, found lifeless by his fiancee at the bottom of the pool at his home in Rialto, Calif. Rodney King, key figure in L.A. riots, dead at 47 Rodney King, the black motorist whose'91 videotaped beating by Los Angeles police officers was the touchstone for one of the most destructive race riots in the nation's history, was found at the bottom of his swimming pool early Sunday and later pronounced dead. He was 47. Leonard Pitts Jr.: Rodney King asked a defining question for all people There was always something hapless about Rodney King. Rodney King's Fiancee to 911: 'I Heard Something Fall' From Stan Wilson CNN LOS ANGELES (CNN) — In a frantic 911 call early Sunday, Rodney King's fiancee, Cynthia Kelley,... Article: Rodney King Dead At 47 Rodney King, the black motorist whose 1991 videotaped beating by Los Angeles police officers was the touchstone for one of the most destructive race riots in the nation's history, was declared dead early Sunday after being pulled from the bottom of his swimming pool. He was 47. Rodney King and the beautiful plea of a flawed man Rodney King used to tell a harrowing story about growing up outside Pasadena, Calif., where he and his three brothers rode their bicycles through the vacant hills behind the nearby Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the weekends. When he was 9, he and his older brother sat astride their Sting-Rays on a rise in the San Gabriel Mountains when they saw a Los Angeles County sheriff's squad car roll to a ... Rodney King: Legacy of a flawed martyr Rodney King used to tell a harrowing story about growing up in Altadena, Calif., where he and his th Rodney King's fiancee to 911: 'He's at the bottom of the pool ... oh my God!' In a frantic 911 call early Sunday, Rodney King's fiancee, Cynthia Kelley, described how she discovered King's body at the bottom of his pool and made repeated efforts "to wake him up," but there was no response to her efforts. Rodney King 911 Tape Released: "He's at the Bottom of the Pool" RIALTO, Calif. (KTLA) -- Investigators have released the frantic 911 call from Rodney King's fiancee after she found him at the bottom of a swimming pool at their Rialto home on Sunday.
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