RIP: Rodney King

[M GO BLUE!!!]

Rodney King dead at 47 - CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/17/us/obit-rodney-king/index.html)

I wonder if this is the work of someone whom with he did not get along.

[Izulde]

The International edition comments section is filled with blatantly racist trolling. Sad to read, honestly.

[Shkspr]

CNN's comments section is nearly as content free and vitriolic as youtube.

[molson]

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[Lathum]

IBTL

[EagleFan]

Must be the week for dirt bags. First Hill now this douche.

[DaddyTorgo]

The International edition comments section is filled with blatantly racist trolling. Sad to read, honestly.

Comments sections on every website are always filled with blantant racist/homophobic/political trolling. Doesn't even matter what the article is about.

[Noop]

Must be the week for dirt bags. First Hill now this douche.

He was a douche?

[M GO BLUE!!!]

He was a douche?

I was thinking the same thing. Guess he has a very wide net to cast on who is a douche & who isn't...

I would have said that King was a loser who made some really bad decisions. He was convicted of robbery in '91 & was on parole when the cops beat his ass. I don't know what happened in the robbery, or exactly in the traffic stop, but he became famous for something that was completely wrong.

I would contend that the cops were just as much, if not more, of douches than King.

I support the police and people in general until they do things that do not solicit support. Four men with guns beating the living fuck out of someone with batons is something I cannot condone for practically anybody.

Rodney King wasn't Osama Bin Laden. He was a drunk who screwed up. The cops that beat him could have simply arrested him and let the law do its thing. I'm not crying over King. I hope he got his life together and regretted the bad decisions that he made (and paid for.) Though I highly doubt any of the outrage and hatred toward him has anything to do with his arrest record.

[Crapshoot]

Must be the week for dirt bags. First Hill now this douche.

Wrtf is with you? Thankfully, the rest of civilization believes cops beating on innocent minority civilians for jollies isn't acceptable.

[Shepp]

Wrtf is with you? Thankfully, the rest of civilization believes cops beating on innocent minority civilians for jollies isn't acceptable.

Seeing the officers were aquitted I would say this wasn't quite the case.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Seeing the officers were aquitted I would say this wasn't quite the case.

Now now, don't go confusing the lovely fiction with facts.

[illinifan999]

Wrtf is with you? Thankfully, the rest of civilization believes cops beating on innocent minority civilians for jollies isn't acceptable.

Um...what? His two passengers that complied with directions were unscathed. While the beating went way too far, to say Rodney King is an innocent civilian is almost comical.

[gstelmack]

Um...what? His two passengers that complied with directions were unscathed. While the beating went way too far, to say Rodney King is an innocent civilian is almost comical.

I got lucky once to see the much longer version of the video (very early on in the reporting) before they cut it down to the much shorter one that just shows him being wailed on. It paints a much different picture when you see him get up, charge an officer, get knocked down and told to stay down, he gets back up, charges again, a couple of times before you get to the beating shown.

[Blackadar]

Seeing the officers were aquitted I would say this wasn't quite the case.

So was OJ.

My cousin was a LA cop pre-and post- Rodney King and the stories he told (joyously, I might add) would make your hair stand up. He used to brag about how they'd just wade into stuff, nightsticks swinging, because someone looked at them funny. He thought this was all in great fun, but the guy was a menace to society. I fully expected to see him in that Rodney King video.

So say what you want, but from the 1st hand stories I was told, the LA Police Department wasn't any better than the thugs they were supposed to be policing.

[MrBug708]

I also saw the longer video when I was part of lapd and the cops in question where getting the crap beat out of them by a drugged up King. The cops went too far obviously, but King wasn't some compliant innocent black guy who was the target of a random police hazing incident

[Chief Rum]

Everybody involved was shitty, as well as the crews that went out and tore LA a new one during the riots. Anyone who thinks otherwise is looking at this through their own agenda.

I don't miss Rodney King, and when those cops kick the bucket, I won't miss them either.

[larrymcg421]

Now now, don't go confusing the lovely fiction with facts.

Yes, we don't want to confuse fact from fiction by ignoring the fact that two of the officers did get convicted and sentenced to 30 months in prison.

[Ragone]

Can we get a Reginald Denny update?

[larrymcg421]

Everybody involved was shitty, as well as the crews that went out and tore LA a new one during the riots. Anyone who thinks otherwise is looking at this through their own agenda.

I don't miss Rodney King, and when those cops kick the bucket, I won't miss them either.

This.

It's not an either/or situation.

[larrymcg421]

Can we get a Reginald Denny update?

He tried to sue the city of LA (attorney was Johnnie Cochran), lost, and is now a boat mechanic.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Here's AP's blurb on a number of the notable figures from that event

My Way News - Major players from the 1992 Los Angeles riots (http://apnews.myway.com//article/20120617/D9VF1QHG0.html)

[larrymcg421]

Here's AP's blurb on a number of the notable figures from that event

My Way News - Major players from the 1992 Los Angeles riots (http://apnews.myway.com//article/20120617/D9VF1QHG0.html)

The Soon Ja Du thing was horrible. I still don't know what the judge was thinking.

[M GO BLUE!!!]

He tried to sue the city of LA (attorney was Johnnie Cochran), lost, and is now a boat mechanic.

Boats go in the water.

Rodney was found in the pool.

Hmmmm...

[Suicane75]

RIP, I hope someones beating his ass in heaven.

[M GO BLUE!!!]

RIP, I hope someones beating his ass in heaven.

Would that really be a peaceful rest?

[Suicane75]

Don't make me no never mind.

[M GO BLUE!!!]

Um...what? His two passengers that complied with directions were unscathed.

The cops were too busy beating Rodney. Now if someone had yelled "there's two more in the car"...:devil:

Scary that the cops really didn't care that they already had a couple witnesses...

[EagleFan]

Wrtf is with you? Thankfully, the rest of civilization believes cops beating on innocent minority civilians for jollies isn't acceptable.

Lol, it's called being a good judge of character. I could care less about debating the cop thing. The guy was a dirt bag regardless of that.

Try learning how to read asshole. I said nothing about the guy getting beaten. You are one royal pieace is shit, you definitely haveart of your name right.

Welcome to my ignore list, population you.

[M GO BLUE!!!]

Gentlemen. There is no need for such disagreement here. I mean, can't we all just get along?

[stevew]

The path he seemed to be headed on 20 years ago leads me to guestimate that having his ass beat by those cops probably gave him an extra 10 years of life or more. Seems almost ironic.

He should never have been beaten that badly, but I don't think that should have made him a multimillionaire either. Hopefully he found peace.

[RomaGoth]

Gentlemen. There is no need for such disagreement here. I mean, can't we all just get along?

Hi, you must be new around here. Welcome to FOFC!

[Rizon]

Gentlemen. There is no need for such disagreement here. I mean, can't we all just get along?

Often misquoted, the "just" was never in his actual quote.