[lbryce]

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

[Dilbert San Diego]

So now we get to eulogize Rodney King.

I wonder if the president will weigh in on this.

[Boogieman]

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

[Buffalo Head]

Not much else needs to be said after your excellent post.

[al_c]

“Can’t we all just take a swim?”

Apparently not.

RIP dude.

[1rudeboy]

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.

[BerryDingle]

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

[Balding_Eagle]

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!

[Cementjungle]

If this had happened on a weekday and the White House had the opportunity to tell the MSM how to make the headline, it would have been something like “After 20 years, police brutality victim King succumbs to injuries inflicted by white police officers”

[sappy]

If Obama had a human manifestation of his policies, it would look like Rodney KIngs life....

[surroundedbyblue]

“Authorities didn’t identify the fiancée. King earlier said he was engaged to Cynthia Kelley, one of the jurors in the civil rights case that gave King $3.8 million in damages.”

Um, ok.

[DogByte6RER]

Yep ... he was found at the bottom of the pool

[Uncle Chip]

King's case never would have become such a symbol without the video, he said.

"If there hadn't been a video there would have never been a case. In those days, you might have claimed excessive force but there would have been no way to prove it."

And to think that the person who took the video offered it first to the LAPD and they didn't want it. He then gave it to KTLA -- and the rest is history.

[11th_VA]

Sounds like he died doing what he liked - drinken. Can we all just get along now?

[Terry L Smith]

I have roots in Southern California.

I hope that the fellow, who was pulled from a truck and violently attacked, is alive and well enough to do a “Snoopy Dance”, singing John Lennon’s “Instant Karma”!