Rodney King Dead at 47… Victim of Brutal 1991 LA Police Beating… Found Dead at Bottom of Swimming Pool

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Rodney
King dead at 47. His videotaped 1991 beating by Los Angeles police officers led
to riots, was found dead Sunday morning, according to a report. He was
47. King’s fiancee reportedly found him dead at the bottom of a swimming pool, sources told TMZ.

On March
3, 1991, King was beaten by Los Angeles Police Department officers
after a high-speed car chase, an infamous case of police brutality that
was captured on camera by a bystander and broadcast around the world.

Four officers were tried for the assault but were acquitted, a decision that sparked the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

 

 


Rodney King signs copies of his book “The Riot Within” at the African American Museum of Philadelphia this past April.
~ William T. Wade Jr/startraksphot

 

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