- Rodney King used to tell a harrowing story about growing up in Altadena, Calif., where he and his three brothers rode their bicycles through the vacant hills behind the nearby Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the weekends. (South Bend Tribune)
- The death of Rodney Glen King this weekend brought to an end an era that defined modern Los Angeles and affected any person who lived through it. (Los Angeles Times)
- A lot has changed in hip-hop and society since the L.A. riots and The Predator. But not everything. (Atlantic Online)
- LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rodney King, who died Sunday after a troubled life, never meant to change the Los Angeles Police Department — but that's what he ended up doing. (Courier News)
- Rodney King, whose videotaped beating by police officers in 1991 heated racial tensions in Los Angeles, has died at 47. According to information given by CBS News, Rialto about 5:25 a.m. on Sunday, police in Rialto, Calif. (WTRF)
- RIALTO, CA (CNN/RNN) – The Rialto Police Department has released the audio from the frantic 911 call by Rodney Kings fiancĂ©e, Cynthia Kelley. Kelley made the call at 5:25 a.m. after finding King at the bottom of his pool. (WALB 10)
- Rodney King, the man at the center of the infamous 1992 L.A. riots, has died at age 47. King was found in his pool at his Rialto, Calif. home by his fiancee, Cynthia Kelly, according to initial reports by TMZ. (whtc.com)
- There was always something hapless about Rodney King. He entered the nations consciousness — and its conscience — as a shambling drunk, an unemployed black construction worker who tried to outrun L.A. (Seattle Times)
- LOS ANGELES (AP) - Rodney King, the black motorist whose 1991 videotaped beating by Los Angeles police officers led to some of the nations most destructive race riots, has died at age 47. (WWMT)
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Rodney King
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