Rodney King

• Rodney King, who passed away earlier this month after he was discovered dead in his pool in Rialto, Calif.
(Hollywood.com)
• Between a man in a dark grey suit and a bright-eyed bride in white, they seem to have covered the American dream.
(Counter Punch)
• LOS ANGELES — The video was shocking when played for the first time: A shadowy, jumpy clip of police officers slamming their batons against a fallen man.
(Arlington Heights Daily Herald)
• And just like that, years after most of us had forgotten about him, Rodney King is no more. He was found dead last week in the bottom of his swimming pool.
(Huffington Post)
• The tragedy of Rodney Kings life began long before his 1991 beating exposed the disgrace of police brutality.
(Los Angeles Times)
• 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.
(Philadelphia Daily News)
• 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.
(San Jose Mercury News)
• A lot has changed in hip-hop and society since the L.A. riots and The Predator. But not everything.
(Atlantic Online)
• When Rodney King was brutalized in Los Angeles in 1992, it unleashed the suppressed anger and pain that many people in communities of color knew all too well. People raged in the streets for days.
(policymic.com)