Rodney King, key L.A. Riots figure, pulled from pool at his Rialto home, dies

Daily Bulletin ^ | 06/17/2012 09:18:00 AM PDT

[Nacho Bidnith]

RIALTO -- Rodney King, the black motorist whose 1991 videotaped beating by Los Angeles police officers led to riots a year later in South Central L.A., was declared dead early Sunday after being pulled from the bottom of his home's backyard swimming pool.

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[GOP_Party_Animal]

I’m amazed he didn’t die of a cocaine overdose 10 years ago.

[History Repeats]

Old Rod’s pool might need cleaning now but with this scumbag kicking the bucket he helped do a little cleaning on the gene pool.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

[crosshairs]

Prolly drowning in debt.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Rodney

[C210N]

No wonder why he died in his pool. It's TOTAL green... full of deadly pond scum algae. A bit of shock and monitoring his pool chemicals, and he'd still be around.

[apillar]

Can’t we all just get some Oxygen???

[twister881]

Yes, bet the thug was broke, and the “fiancee” [who just happens to be one of the jurors who awarded King $3.8M in the civil suit] off’d him or had him off’d for insurance money.

Over/under on how many days before the po-lice charge her with murder?

[Fast Moving Angel]

Last night on one of the local LA stations, they showed a cop taking a large marijuana plant (at least 36” tall) out of the residence.

[bicyclerepair]

So now, he and thugvon can commisserate in h311

[brivette]

good one..

[Dixie Yooper]

Whatever drug he was on the night he was detained finally caught up with him. Something tells me that his next judgment won't go as well as the last one did.

[Jeff Chandler]

I’m amazed that all American flags haven’t been lowered to half mast.

[Made In The USA]

Clearly his death was racially motivated, when do the riots start and L.A. burns?

[massgopguy]

Did William Shatner make the 911 call?

[Tenacious 1]

Rodney King had a pool in his back yard?

He could swim?????? Yes? No?

[pterional]

He shouldn't have taken swimming lessons from Whitney Houston.

[Argus]

Ya gotta love it - “the black motorist”. Like card-carrying Auto Club member in good standing Rodney was just tooling down the highway in his roadster when the police decided to pull him over and beat the hell out of him.

I’m thinking of founding the Rodney King Institute for Non-Violent Conflict Resolution and hit the suckers up for donations. Why should Rodney’s “fiancee” be the only one to get rich off his legacy?

[A_Former_Democrat]

Yeah it kills me too how he was projected as just some gentle giant “Can’t..can’t ... can’ we all just get along” victim beaten at random by racist cops.

This guy was a menace to society, as prior and post events proved. The world is a better place today.

[Baynative]

"I’m amazed he didn’t die of a cocaine overdose 10 years ago."

When he was awarded the millions by the jury his attorney petitioned the court not to give it to him all at once saying he'd be dead in months if they did. I heard that resulted in creating an annuity that gave his a smaller lump sum and something like 12,500 a month to get by on.