Rodney King dead at 47

Yep that guy

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/rodney-king-dead-swimming-pool-160339712.html

and still

Who would have thought that he couldn't swim?

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/17/us/obit-rodney-king/index.html Police in Rialto, California, received a 911 call from King's fiancee, Cynthia Kelly, about 5:25 a.m., said Capt. Randy DeAnda. Responding officers found King at the bottom of the pool, removed him and attempted to revive him. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital, DeAnda said. Kelly was a juror in King's lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles in 1994.

Really, he met his to-be wife at his trial, 18 years ago?

i thought he was 47 when he wouldn't listen to the cops and just lay the hell down after leading them on a high speed chase..

Dang. You beat me to it.

more concerned about this guy, really:

AngryCorvair wrote: more concerned about this guy, really:

why? he looks like he's having a grand old time... oh, wait- you probably mean the guy laying on the ground unconscious after being viciously beaten for the crime of being white?

No Sympathy for the guy. Reportedly, he'd been arrested 11 more times in the time since his rise to infamy.

^^ Because there's no way the police might have any kind of grudge against him... Nope nope.

prior to his "rise to infamy"

July 27, 1987: According to a complaint filed by his wife, King beat her while she was sleeping, then dragged her outside the house and beat her again. King was charged with battery and pleaded "no contest." He was placed on probation and ordered to obtain counseling. He never got the counseling.

November 3, 1989: King, brandishing a tire iron, ordered a convenience store clerk to empty the cash register. The clerk grabbed the tire iron, causing King to fall backwards and knock over a pie rack. King swung the rack at the clerk and fled the store with $200. King was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon, second-degree robbery, and intent to commit great bodily injury. In a plea agreement, King pleaded guilty to the robbery charge and the other charges were dropped. He was sentenced to two years in prison, but was paroled on December 27, 1990.

Wow, sounds like a model citizen, I wonder why the police kept picking on hum?

Well, at least he lived a pretty full life.

Its because the system is rigged not because the culture of violence is celebrated in his community. (of course I am being sarcastic)

Jay wrote: ^^ Because there's *no way* the police might have any kind of grudge against him... Nope nope.

^^ Because there's No Way he could have been that big a miscreant. Reading his rap sheet leads me to believe the authorities over there were scared to press charges.

In reply to DoctorBlade:

There always has to be one bleeding heart out there. It would be one thing if it was a single incident, I'd give him some slack. People make mistakes, I know that I have, but a rap sheet like that shows what kind of scumbucket piece of garbage he was.

Wait a minute.... How in Hell did this man have a pool to die in???

I work my ass off six days a week, and make a conscious effort to not get my ass beaten by cops, or get thrown in jail.

Still, I have no pool to drown in... Where the berkeley is my pool????

grafmiata wrote: Wait a minute.... How in Hell did this man have a pool to die in??? I work my ass off six days a week, and make a conscious effort to not get my ass beaten by cops, or get thrown in jail. Still, I have no pool to drown in... Where the berkeley is my pool????

Stop working, collect unemployment. forgo your ethics and you too can have a pool.

berkeleying ethics burn my ass every time... Might be losing my job tomorrow because of those pesky "ethics"... Because of a Rodney King Wannabee.

No doubt he was a messed up man and deserved more jail time than he got, but go back up and look at that picture of his face again. I think some of y'all are just trying to be funny, but it's not even close to that. And some...

It's no secret I'm a card carrying Republican on this board. But I volunteer a lot of my time at a predominantly Black school as an assistant basketball coach for the girls team. I'm the only White person on the bench. One of the girls on the team has lost two brothers this year in shootings. I've been coaching with the head coach for 15 years now. When we were in our twenty's, he used to get pulled over all the time on his way home after basketball games for 'Driving While Black' in a bone stock '93 Accord 4-door he bought new when he got his first teaching job.

A lot of people need to spend some time outside their comfort zones to realize their White People Problems are pretty insignificant.

Thats the face of a pcp addict who would not listen. You should see the face of his passenger.... the one who didn't fight cops and ignore them.

racerfink wrote: No doubt he was a messed up man and deserved more jail time than he got, but go back up and look at that picture of his face again. I think some of y'all are just trying to be funny, but it's not even close to that. And some... It's no secret I'm a card carrying Republican on this board. But I volunteer a lot of my time at a predominantly Black school as an assistant basketball coach for the girls team. I'm the only White person on the bench. One of the girls on the team has lost two brothers this year in shootings. I've been coaching with the head coach for 15 years now. When we were in our twenty's, he used to get pulled over all the time on his way home after basketball games for 'Driving While Black' in a bone stock '93 Accord 4-door he bought new when he got his first teaching job. A lot of people need to spend some time outside their comfort zones to realize their White People Problems are pretty insignificant.

dude got the beatdown he deserved- unfortunately someone happened to be video taping it. i lost all sympathy for him once the actual details of the event started to come out. his race was irrelevant once the pcp in his system made him think he was superman as he tried to fight off the cops that were trying to restrain him after his little high speed joy ride.. the world is just a better place without some people- and given his record before and after his on camera smackdown, he's one of them.

Hope 7 police officers never need to billy club YOU in the face to 'restrain' you...

Luckily i dont do drugs, beat women, rob stores, or drive drunk, so i think i'll take my chances and bet that i'll never get beaten by seven billy clubs.

I'd say Denny looked a lot worse than King. Denny's only crime was trying to do his job and thus being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

King definitely had a long rap sheet. No, that doesn't excuse what the LA cops did. It does look to me like the LAPD was much easier on him than the homies were on a completely innocent guy.

racerfink wrote: Hope 7 police officers never need to billy club YOU in the face to 'restrain' you...

Since I'm never berkeleyed up on PCP, they don't.

Keep in mind you're talking about someone who was on a drug that let's people convienently forget they've just been shot 7 times long enough to keep attacking the cops that just shot them.

High off his ass and leading cops on a high speed chase = got exactly what he deserved. Race doesn't even berkeleying come into it.