Annette John-Hall: The many sides of Rodney King How will history remember Rodney King? Unwilling symbol of police brutality? Unlikely advocate for us getting along? Unrepentant drunk? Rodney King's Buds -- He Was a Professional Pot Smoker Rodney King was an expert pot smoker ... and there's no way marijuana could have caused him to go off the hinges and act like a maniac on the night he died ... so say King's smoking buddies, who run his local weed dispensary. Ever since… Rodney King, key figure in L.A. riots, dead at 47 Rodney King, the black motorist whose'91 videotaped beating by Los Angeles police officers was the touchstone for one of the most destructive race riots in the nation's history, was found at the bottom of his swimming pool early Sunday and later pronounced dead. He was 47. Leonard Pitts Jr.: Rodney King asked a defining question for all people There was always something hapless about Rodney King. Article: Rodney King Dead At 47 Rodney King, the black motorist whose 1991 videotaped beating by Los Angeles police officers was the touchstone for one of the most destructive race riots in the nation's history, was declared dead early Sunday after being pulled from the bottom of his swimming pool. He was 47. News tweets: Greece and Germany, Mubarak, Rodney King The week's news in 140 characters or fewer Rodney King and the beautiful plea of a flawed man Rodney King used to tell a harrowing story about growing up outside Pasadena, Calif., where he and his three brothers rode their bicycles through the vacant hills behind the nearby Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the weekends. When he was 9, he and his older brother sat astride their Sting-Rays on a rise in the San Gabriel Mountains when they saw a Los Angeles County sheriff's squad car roll to a ... Rodney King and America's Stalled Conversation About Race Sunday afternoon a 20-something white guy in a Ramones t-shirt standing in front of me in line at my local coffee shop remarked to the young white woman he was with, "Hey, did you hear Rodney King died?" She didn't look up from her iPhone as she replied, "Who's Rodney King?" Her response made tears well up in my eyes. I'd only found out a few hours earlier that King had been found at the bottom ... 911 call details moments after Rodney King found in pool Rodney King's fiancée made a frantic 911 call after finding him at the bottom of his pool. Rodney King, key figure in LA riots, dead at 47 Rodney King, whose videotaped beating by police in 1991 led to LA race riots, has died at 47.
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