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	CNN.com - Rodney King slams SUV into house, breaks pelvis - Apr. 16, 2003
		Rodney King was hospitalized after police said he lost control of his SUV while weaving through traffic at 100 mph and crashed into a house.
		Rodney King, whose videotaped beating led to the deadly 1992 riots in Los Angeles, was hospitalized with a broken pelvis after he lost control of his sport utility vehicle while weaving through traffic at 100 mph and crashed into a house, police said.
		King, 39, was spotted Sunday by a police officer who said King was speeding and weaving through traffic in his 2003 Ford Expedition when he slammed into a utility pole, a chain-link fence and then the home, police said.
	www.cnn.com /2003/US/West/04/15/rodney.king.ap/index.html (417 words)

	Rodney King - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rodney King was charged with felony evasion the night of the incident, but this charge was dropped.
		Rodney King and the April Riots are the focus of the song "April 29, 1992 (Miami)" by Sublime; although the first line of the song reads, "April 26, 1992, there was a riot on the streets tell me where were you..."
		Rodney King is substituted into the chorus instead of the title line in the song "Like a King" by Ben Harper.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rodney_King (1596 words)

	Day 2 of The Trial In The Rodney King Saga
		Rodney King again brought up the point that another lawyer had confirmed that indeed transcripts of regular transmission tapes are made before the tapes are re-cycled.
		Rodney King responded that he wanted to be fully informed of the communications of the police and their actions before and as they entered his private property.
		King has left the region but she doesn’t want her husband to know where she lives.’ Then he asked Nancy King: ‘Did you say this?’ Nancy King responded: ‘Yes.’ Rodney King followed with a statement about possible reconciliation but what he said was not audible.
	www.cyberclass.net /kingmar2802.htm (1898 words)

	Rodney King
		King suffered extensive injuries as a result of the beating, including skull fractures and nerve damage to part of his face.
		Although the Rodney King beating and the subsequent acquittals at the first state trial clearly raised in the public's mind the issue of racism in American society, none of the prosecutions specifically alleged racial motivation.
		Indeed, it was only at the later federal trial that Rodney King, taking the stand for the first time, initially testified that the officers had made racial epithets at the time of his beating; even then, he later had to admit that he was unsure that the police did in fact use such epithets.
	members.tripod.com /crime911/rodney_king.htm (826 words)

	CNN.com - LAPD beating victim Rodney King arrested on drug charge - September 30, 2001
		Rodney King was arrested in Pomona, California, Saturday and taken to a nearby medical center for drug testing.
		POMONA, California (CNN) -- Rodney King, whose videotaped beating by police officers led to the 1992 Los Angeles riots, was arrested in a park for allegedly being under the influence of PCP and exposing himself.
		King's 1991 beating led to riots when four officers were acquitted of state charges.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/US/09/30/rodney.king.arrest (314 words)

	Seeing is believing: The Handicam Revolution
		Most damning was the fact that the two officers who were supposed to drive a badly-injured Rodney King directly to the hospital after the confrontation actually made a detour to their police station to show their 'trophy' suspect to other officers.
		The significance with the Rodney King case, I think, is that it represented a kind of breakthrough in public awareness of the ways in which, and to some extent the legal ways in which, video can be used.
		It was the videotape of the beating of Rodney King that inspired musician Peter Gabriel to co-found Witness, the non-profit organization that provides video technology to human rights activists around the world.
	www.seeingisbelieving.ca /handicam/king (1443 words)

	Rodney King - Uncyclopedia
		Rodney King (born February 31st, 1387) is a well-known African-American figure notorious for beating to death two white police officers in 1892.
		Unbeknownst to King, the incident was secretly recorded on a stereoscope in alarmingly accurate 3D by a bystander.
		King was quickly arrested by the remaining ociffers at the seen and later arraigned on charges for 2 counts of manslaughter and 20 counts of sexual battery and indecent exposure.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Rodney_King (460 words)

	Los Angeles Riots-Series of Reports
		Lawyers for the officers charged in the allegations argued that the policemen believed that King was acting under the influence of the animal tranquilizer PCP, which often causes violent and unpredictable behavior that has resulted in the injury of numerous emergency responders and law enforcement officers.
		King was not found to have been using PCP, but was found to have a blood alcohol level of.19, which is more than double that allowed in most states as indicative of "drunken driving".
		City residents are said to be "holding their breath" and praying that the seemingly isolated "lawlessness" doesn't spread to engulf the entire city in vengence for the actions of a jury that made a decision.
	www.emergency.com /la-riots.htm (3242 words)

	Prohibition Times: Retribution: Glenn King
		King had nine skull fractures, a severe concussion (swelling of the brain), his sinus bones were broken, a shattered eye socket, broken teeth, paralysis of the face, internal bleeding, numerous cuts and bruises, and he had a broken leg.
		King had suffered enough abuse already, and didn't feel he deserved to be beaten up by the four criminal attorneys -- like a rape victim that gets raked over the coals for the audacity of prosecuting the rapist.
		King was not on drugs, and his alleged 0.19 %BAC level was probably due to a false reading because of the time delay or internal injuries (no lawyer was ever given the opportunity to dispute this allegeation); his behavior was simply less than bright.
	www.geocities.com /prohibition_us/glennking.html (2597 words)

	Rodney King Beating: MARCH 19, 1991
		King, a 25-year-old unemployed construction worker with two children, had been released in December after serving six months of a two-year sentence for second-degree robbery (brandishing a tire iron, he had taken cash from a grocer) and was still on parole.
		King she said, got out of his car with his hands up, turned and put his hands on the roof.
		Later, King showed journalists a bruise on his right side that he said was caused by the Taser darts and the shocks.
	www.prop1.org /legal/prisons/kinga2.htm (1977 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > State -- Rodney King arrested for allegedly threatening daughter, ex-girlfriend
		RIALTO – Rodney King, whose videotaped beating by Los Angeles police led to the deadly Los Angeles riots of 1992, was arrested for allegedly making threats following a fight between his daughter, his girlfriend and an ex-girlfriend, police said.
		King's videotaped beating after he was stopped for speeding shocked the nation when it was shown repeatedly on television newscasts.
		King sued the city for the beating, eventually settling for $3.8 million.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/state/20050929-1926-ca-rodneyking.html (332 words)

	Court TV Online - Rodney King
		While the King beating was tragic, he argues, it was just the trigger that released the rage of a community in economic strife and a police department in serious decline.
		The truth of the matter about the Rodney King beating is that even though to most people it's symbolic of this police brutality, it is a very atypical incident.
		And by the way, I'm as critical of the use of that videotape as I am of the use of the Rodney King videotape because while it showed all the fl assailants of these whites, Asians and Latinos, television wasn't able to show the rescues, which were mostly made by fl civilians.
	www.courttv.com /archive/casefiles/rodneyking (3803 words)

	Police Tactics: After Rodney King: What Have We Learned? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The Rodney King civil case was loaded with lessons for federal, state and local officials if only they will stop, look and listen.
		The jury learned during the punitive damages phase that the roots of the King beating were to be found in poor policy which encouraged Los Angeles police officers who encountered resisting suspects to hit them with metal pipes ("police batons," if one prefers to minimize the impact).
		King was something more than what the media calls "a motorist." Still, he should never have been subjected to the tactics we see on the video.
	home.earthlink.net /~gregmeyer/articles/king1pg3.html (1394 words)

	Salon \| Newsreal: Rethinking Rodney King
		Ever since, the beating of Rodney King and the ensuing riots have formed a somber backdrop to America's "dialogue" on race.
		That was not the case with Rodney King.
		So the city felt confident that if the King case went to trial that it would be decided in favor of the kinds of people who had been injured before by LAPD batons -- whites, Latinos and fls.
	www.salon.com /news/1998/03/13news.html (1583 words)

	PBS - frontline: l.a.p.d. blues: race & policing: the legacy of rodney king
		The 1991 videotaped beating of Rodney King by L.A.P.D. officers, and subsequent riots triggered by the acquittal of the officers involved, rocked L.A. and the nation.
		The Rodney King case certainly punched a lot of buttons, especially in the minority community, who have made allegations about police misconduct and use of force.
		Certainly you could argue that, in the Rodney King case, the adrenaline is flowing, and they're chasing someone, and then this incident occurs.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/lapd/race/king.html (2619 words)

	Kingkeyfigures
		Rodney Glen King (known to friends as "Glen") found himself thrust into the spotlight--both literally and figuratively--after he led California Highway Patrol officers on a high speed chase through the north Los Angeles suburbs.
		The video of King's beating by LAPD officers, made possible by the overhead illumination of a police helicopter, shocked the nation and led to two criminal trials and a civil trial against the officers.
		King received a $3.8 million award in damages as a result of a civil suit filed against the City of Los Angeles.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/lapd/Kingkeyfigures.html (2057 words)

	NPR : 15 Years Later, Rodney King Looks Back
		King and Milton Grimes, his attorney in the days after the attack, look back on that night and the days that followed.
		King's saga began on March 3, 1991, when he was pulled over for driving recklessly in Lake View Terrace, a residential suburb of Los Angeles.
		King reportedly resisted arrest and charged at one of the police officers.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5243592 (444 words)

	The Rodney King incident
		The hysteria surrounding the Rodney King matter would be incomprehensible to the legendary stranger from Mars.
		Viewers didn't see Rodney King attacking the policemen, unfazed by a stun gun; they didn't see the policemen stop swinging their sticks the moment he decided to surrender.
		King was never unconscious and the beating stopped the moment he agreed to be taken into custody.
	www.harrybrowne.org /articles/RodneyKing.htm (4448 words)

	Shielded from Justice: Los Angeles: Background
		WASH., D.C. The 1991 videotaped beating of Rodney G. King exemplified so much that was (and in some cases still is) wrong with the LAPD that it bears re-telling.
		King was beaten by LAPD officers, as a sergeant directed from nearby, with approximately fifty-six baton strokes; he was also kicked in the head and body and stunned with a Taser stun gun.
		The videotaped beating shown on television was edited by a local television station, leaving out a portion of the incident during which King allegedly lunged towards one of the officers.
	www.hrw.org /reports98/police/uspo72.htm (784 words)

	Online NewsHour Forum: Authors' Corner with Lou Cannon -- April 7, 1998<
		King is a muscular person who led police on a 7.8 mile chase, ignored police commands to lie down on the ground, threw four officers off his back who tried to handcuff him without hurting him.
		King was in fact on PCP, but it is almost certainly true that anyone who behaved as he did would have been beaten.
		King's criminal record-- which in any case does not justify excessive force-- but in failing to go beyond the record of the edited videotape and examine Mr.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/authors_corner/jan-june98/cannon_4-7.html (2557 words)

	JURIST - The Rodney King Beating Trials
		After King was handcuffed, Koon asked all officers who participated in the use of force to raise their hands.
		Mounger told jurors that "Rodney King alone was in control of the situation." On the other hand, John Barnett, attorney for Theodore Briseno, characterized Officer Powell as "out of control," and told jurors that the videotape would show his client tried to intervene to stop the beating.
		King may have been an ex-con who had given wildly different accounts of his beating, but he came across on the stand as an uneducated man was either too drunk or confused to remember events, not as a sophisticated liar.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /trials24.htm (4893 words)

	Rodney G. King Biography \| World of Criminal Justice
		The protest was considered a race riot, due to the fact that King was African American and the police officers accused of beating him were all Caucasian.
		To further combat the possibility of future police misconduct, in the wake of the King beating, all citizen complaints concerning officer conduct are sent to an inspector general, who investigates police conduct.
		In March of 1999, King turned himself in to police officers in San Bernadino County in California due to charges of domestic abuse and vandalism.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/rodney-g-king-cri (651 words)

	Fragments Photos-King Riots
		By the time Rodney King was handcuffed and in police custody, he had sustained kidney damage and eleven skull fractures.
		King appeared on TV to stutter his now famous words: "Can we all just get along?" The uprising was called the worst riot in modern U.S. history.
		When the Rodney King uprising began I was living in the heart of Koreatown.
	www.fragmentsweb.org /stuff/photking.html (1082 words)

	COURTTV.COM - PEOPLE - Rodney King sentenced to jail, treatment in DUI crash
		King pleaded guilty Wednesday and was sentenced to a three-month
		King, 38, of Rialto, suffered a fractured pelvis and cracked ribs.
		King was pulled over in 1991 and beaten by police officers who
	www.courttv.com /people/2003/0828/rodneyking_ap.html (284 words)

	Rodney King Arrested For Allegedly Punching Girlfriend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		King, 38, was booked for investigation of domestic violence on Saturday then released Monday on $50,000 bail, a records clerk at the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., said Tuesday.
		King's girlfriend, JoAnne Naser, 22, of Rialto, Calif., telephoned police Saturday and said King punched her in the stomach during an argument that began the previous night, police Sgt. Shawn O'Connell said.
		King was sentenced last Aug. 27 after police said he raced through a Rialto intersection at more than 100 mph in his new SUV on April 13 before losing control of the car, striking a utility pole, crashing into a fence and hitting a house.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1001815/posts (1181 words)

	Defense Rests in Rodney King Case
		Lawyers for four police officers charged with violating Rodney G. King's civil rights brought their case to an abrupt conclusion Thursday, resting a defense that stumbled at times and depends largely on whether jurors believe the testimony of Sgt. Stacey C. Koon, the only officer to take the witness stand.
		Before resting their case, defense lawyers introduced two last pieces of evidence: transcripts of interviews that King gave to authorities while in custody and the shiny, fl boot that Briseno wore on the night of the incident.
		Briseno also told jurors in that case that Powell hit King in the head with his baton, and that King did not appear to be resisting during many of the blows.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V113/N17/king.17w.html (1269 words)

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