I don't want to remember Rodney King as a peacemaker. But he didn't make those cops beat the sh*T out of him either. I give him a few points for the famous "Can't we get along" line. He could have thrown fuel on the fire and made it a lot worse than it was.
He didn't make the cops beat him? you have got to be kidding he had been smoking Angel Dust he fought them To bad it was female cops they would of proably shot him and we would of never had the riots...