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Rodney King, key figure in LA riots, dies at 47
AP ^ | June 17, 2012 | Christopher Weber

Posted on 06/17/2012 12:46:41 PM PDT by lbryce

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 found at the bottom of his swimming pool early Sunday and later pronounced dead. He was 47.

King's fiancée called 911 at 5:25 a.m. to report that she found him in the pool at their home in Rialto, Calif., police Lt. Dean Hardin said.

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Rodney King did much to effect race relations in America in a wholly malevolent way not only in Southern California where he lived but across the nation as well. There's not much to eulogize an incorrigible recidivist who did much to bring a new paradigm shift in the dynamics of law enforcement in Southern LA, the nation and the world for that matter. The dawn of the video age had arrived and Rodney, LA police officers who were administering their own brand of frontier justice were caught at the worst possible nexus of time and place.

Rodney was a two-bit criminal who never got the gist of doing some low-level crime and getting away with it. There's nothing to Rodney King's legacy except for some extraordinarily naive quote about the state of race relations and the dumbest dumbass rhetorical question of all time, said in a high pitched drunken-stupor sounding voice; Why can't we just all get along? Well, Rodney, the question is a responsibility for you, you alone to answer for and not society's. respond to r

1 posted on 06/17/2012 12:46:49 PM PDT by lbryce
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To: lbryce

So now we get to eulogize Rodney King.

I wonder if the president will weigh in on this.


2 posted on 06/17/2012 12:52:17 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: lbryce

How many “Rodney King is dead” threads do we really need? This is like the 7th one I’ve seen.


3 posted on 06/17/2012 12:53:27 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: lbryce
Not much else needs to be said after your excellent post.
4 posted on 06/17/2012 12:53:48 PM PDT by Buffalo Head (Illigitimi non carborundum)
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To: lbryce

“Can’t we all just take a swim?”

Apparently not.

RIP dude.


5 posted on 06/17/2012 12:57:22 PM PDT by al_c (http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
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To: lbryce

Well done. You took the sanest voice in the aftermath of this whole mess (”why can’t we get along?”), and turn him into a demon.


6 posted on 06/17/2012 12:58:15 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I wonder if the president will weigh in on this.

If Obama had a brother, he would look like...

7 posted on 06/17/2012 1:01:58 PM PDT by MWFsFreedom
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To: 1rudeboy
i wouldn't call him a demon but he was definitely a thug!!!
8 posted on 06/17/2012 1:10:20 PM PDT by ontap
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I wonder if the president will weigh in on this.

If there was some political capital to be had, why his theoretical son would look like Rodney King!

9 posted on 06/17/2012 1:11:39 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (they have no god but caesar)
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To: 1rudeboy

You need to add VeryLowIQ after “1” to your user name to convey the full extent of all your marvelous qualities, characteristics. Reading comprehension not part of the curriculum at Hillbilly Reformatory School?


10 posted on 06/17/2012 1:14:15 PM PDT by lbryce (BHO-"Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds by way of Trinity, NM)
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To: ontap

I would call him more of a hoodlum than a thug. And he appeared to grasp the gravity of the situation (irony, there), much more than someone who writes, “dumbest dumbass rhetorical question of all time, said in a high pitched drunken-stupor sounding voice.”


11 posted on 06/17/2012 1:15:08 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: lbryce

You appear to mad. Care to talk about it?


12 posted on 06/17/2012 1:16:05 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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be mad


13 posted on 06/17/2012 1:17:02 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I wonder if the president will weigh in on this.<<

I wonder what Monday he'll pick for Rodney King Day and make a 3 day federal holiday.... after all...if Barack had a son he'd be alot like Rodney....smoke a lil choom and do a lil blow when they could afford it

14 posted on 06/17/2012 1:26:20 PM PDT by M-cubed
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To: lbryce

If Rodney was beat up, he’d look just like Obama.


15 posted on 06/17/2012 1:49:44 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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Now, let’s see the pop PC culture name a few streets, and some schools after our dear Rodney.


16 posted on 06/17/2012 1:54:43 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: lbryce

Somewhere, way back, there was a thread on FR detailing the physical reason most black people are not good swimmers.

AND, where was Ted Kenndy when Rodney King needed him most?

Come to think of it, Ted probably needs some of that water right now REALLY, REALLY bad!


17 posted on 06/17/2012 2:00:05 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Liberals, at their core, are aggressive & dangerous to everyone around them,)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Indeed, if Obama had a brother, he would look like Rodney King.
18 posted on 06/17/2012 2:03:48 PM PDT by stevem
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Now, let’s see the pop PC culture name a few streets, and some schools after our dear Rodney.

I'm waiting to see if N.J. will lower it's flag to half staff. After all he was screaming into the back window naked at 5 AM just before the "loud splash".

19 posted on 06/17/2012 2:09:19 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: MWFsFreedom

“If Obama had a brother,he would look like....”

If Obama had a brother,he would act like....


20 posted on 06/17/2012 2:21:08 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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