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Rodney King
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Rodney King's Biography

Rodney Glen King (born April 2, 1965 in Sacramento, California) is a Black American who, on March 3, 1991, was the victim of police brutality, committed by Los Angeles police officers. A bystander, George Holliday, videotaped much of the incident from a distance.

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  • News Source: Isthmus | about 19 hours ago
    Borrowing from Bush\'s Playbook ]\n \n \n \n *In fact, the term George W. Obama dates back at least to this prescient Foreign Policy essay from January 7, 2009.\n \n \n \n Obama\'s foreign policy likely won\'t depart radically from Bush\'s. [ Foreign
  • News Source: The Herald | 13 days ago
    The trial of a white former San Francisco Bay Area transit officer charged with killing an unarmed black man will be moved to Los Angeles County because of extensive media coverage and other possible distractions to trial participants, a judge ruled
  • News Source: Los Angeles Times | 18 days ago
    the man poised to become the next chief of the Los Angeles Police Department -- was 21 years old, unemployed, unfulfilled and adrift. He had spent his teenage years training as a professional dirt motorbike racer, but reluctantly walked away after

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  • Blog Source: www.cjr.org | 11 days ago
    As Rodney King once said, famously and in a quite different context, “Can we all get along?” Mr. King, the victim of a police beating in Los Angeles, was referring to race relations, of course. But the same plea now could be applied to ...
  • Blog Source: wfnx.com | 11 days ago
    Rodney King of Celebrity Rehab, Sober House and the Los Angeles riots joins The Sandbox on the phone. Listen here! Put us on your iPod.
  • Blog Source: hiphopisread.blogspot.com | 11 days ago
    This took place in the same year as the Rodney King beating and as such didn't attain the media attention it probably should have received. In 1992, a teenager in Texas, claiming he had been influenced by 2Pac's music, killed a cop; ...

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