Rodney King found dead

[cybotron r_9]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-...sMorningLatest


Rodney King, whose beating by police officers in 1991 was captured on videotape, exacerbating racial tensions in Los Angeles, has been found dead. He was 47.

[Easto]

I'm not sure how many of you live in the Los Angeles area but the guy was a traveling crime spree in the years following the riots. He was pulled over for drunk driving, battery, all sorts of stuff (and not just once). As much as I mourn the death of anyone I also care as much for the living and potential victims he may have eventually taken with him. I now know those potential victims are safe.

[Dan]

sorry,but he was a POS IMO,personally the world is better off now.I was in LA during that time.

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/project...ngarrests.html

obviously NOT the picture of health either.

[blebs]

Amazing how the media plays him out as some sort of self righteous person. We all have our sins, but some have many.

[Easto]

Amazing how the media plays him out as some sort of self righteous person. We all have our sins, but some have many.

Exactly. That's what I don't get. I'm not sure about the rest of the country but here in Los Angeles they're running things on the news all day long. They're trying to make him out as some sort of hero for the civil rights movement. I mean... everytime you would see him on the news it was for one crime or another and then inbetween he would be sitting there saying how he's finally trying to break his addictions by going to some class or another. Then, 1 year later he's in jail again.