Okay-Who freakin’ cares?
Now we can “all just get along”, with our lives.
If anyone can find the first few seconds before the beating starts, when King jumps up and goes for that cops throat please ping me.
I have it on video tape but don’t have the means yet to put it on my computer.
He must have a sentencing hearing coming up soon for something or the other.
Hard to believe anything associated with Rodney King is either of those things.
Is this before or after he got out of the substance abuse clinic? or both?
I saw the footage of this (My SIL watches the show) and it irritated me. A friend was one of those killed in the riots that followed. If King had done what he was told, my friend would still be alive.
Rodney, you worthless dork, stuff it!
This garbage is as old as God.
When in Slovakia over the past 4 years, I had a book of reading exercises that I used in tutoring English.
One was about the Rodney King event.
The title was “Turning the Other Cheek”, and all about the darling Rodney hugging everyone in court and how he forgave everyone.
This is very OLD news.
I guess the leftist are devoid of anything else to write about, now that the Messiah is their new god.
Well now I can die happy.
Oh, no.
Next Brett Favre will be un-retiring . . . wait . . . re-retiring, right?
So, I started watching and began to see how little control these people have over themselves and their own lives. It's really more than a bit scary, when you see what they've been willing to do for drugs or alcohol. And you see how their addictions affect the people around them. The choices they make, the people they surround themselves with. One of the people on the show, Amber Smith, is a former Victorias Secret model, and I believe that she's been in the SI swimsuit edition. Well into her 30s, she's an incredibly beautiful woman, but she's been addicted to and using opiates since she was in her teens. You would think that this woman had everything going for her, but her self esteem was so incredibly low that when a guy she once had a crush on asked her out, she met him at a party, got drunk, blacked out, and couldn't remember who or what she did. In her bio on the shows, she states that at one point, she was prostituting herself for drugs and drug money, and they "advertised her" using her magazine covers.
The thing with Rodney King is that these shows have really humanized him. For years, he'd pop up in the news for getting arrested or something else, and he was nothing more than the punchline for a joke. In this show of "celebrity addicts," he actually seems to be the most grounded and normal, as a human being. The guy's got problems and "demons," and he's trying to work through them in order to reconnect with his family. It's actually quite touching. And I find that he's really the most sympathetic character there, and I really hope that he is able to overcome his alcoholism and find a better life for himself.
For anyone who wonders how it is that anyone could do that to themselves, you might want to check out these shows, as well as a frightening and depressing movies called "Sherry Baby" with Maggie Gynenahll. AA & NA tell addicts that they need to put their lives in the "hands" of a higher power, and that's because they realize that when it comes to addiction, many people really are powerless against it themselves.
Mark
So the moral of the story is:
Beatings did Rodney King some good......