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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

Posted on by 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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To: Nacho Bidnith

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



To: Nacho Bidnith

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.



by 3 posted onby History Repeats (If Obama had a son, he'd have his picture hanging on the wall of the Post office wanted board.)

To: Nacho Bidnith

Prolly drowning in debt.



To: Nacho Bidnith

To: History Repeats

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.



by 6 posted onby C210N ("ask not what the candidate can do for you, ask what you can do for the candidate" (Breitbart, 2012))

To: Nacho Bidnith

Can’t we all just get some Oxygen???



To: crosshairs

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?



To: Nacho Bidnith

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.



by 9 posted onby Fast Moving Angel (A moral wrong is not a civil right: No religious sanction of an irreligious act.)

To: apillar

So now, he and thugvon can commisserate in h311



To: apillar

good one..



To: Nacho Bidnith

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.



To: GOP_Party_Animal

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



To: Nacho Bidnith

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



To: Jeff Chandler

Did William Shatner make the 911 call?



by 15 posted onby massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)

To: Nacho Bidnith

Rodney King had a pool in his back yard? He could swim?????? Yes? No?



by 16 posted onby Tenacious 1 (The Click-&-Paste Media exists & works in Utopia Province, riding unicorns to work.)

To: Nacho Bidnith

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



To: Nacho Bidnith

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?



To: Argus

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.



by 19 posted onby A_Former_Democrat (Free the Zimmermans. . . end this political, racist travesty of a "prosecution")

To: GOP_Party_Animal

"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.



by 20 posted onby Baynative (REMEMBER: Without America there is no free world!)

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