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Thread ID: 6180 | Posts: 5 | Started: 2003-04-15
2003-04-15 15:08 | User Profile
Police: Rodney King Slams SUV Into House
RIALTO, Calif. - 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 SUV 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. No one in the home was injured.
King was in fair condition Monday afternoon, hospital spokesman Jorge Valencia said. His condition was not available Tuesday as hospital officials did not answer phone calls.
Police said they suspect that King was intoxicated, and a blood sample was drawn to determine his blood-alcohol level. Test results have not yet been released.
King was not arrested, but a report detailing the crash circumstances will be submitted to prosecutors, police Lt. Kathy Thompson said.
King, who is black, was chased by police through the San Fernando Valley in 1991 and was captured on videotape being beaten by four white officers.
After their acquittal, riots broke out and lasted for four days, leaving 55 dead and more than 2,000 injured. The mayhem caused $1 billion in property damage.
King later received a $3.8 million settlement from the city of Los Angeles in 1994.
He was convicted of spouse abuse in 1999 in San Bernardino County and was sentenced to 90 days in jail and four years probation.
King pleaded no contest to three counts of being under the influence of PCP and a count of indecent exposure in October 2001. A judge gave King a year in a drug treatment center even though a prosecutor argued King should spend a year in county jail.
Rialto, where King lives, is 53 miles east of Los Angeles.
2003-04-15 16:40 | User Profile
Of course, Rodney King's exploits are not representative of black behavior. He's clearly an aberration, and any conclusions drawn otherwise would simply be racist. Can't we all get along?
2003-04-16 05:07 | User Profile
FYI - friends of mine who are cops told me years ago that King is "red-flagged" in the system, meaning that if/when he is pulled over, sergeants (superior officers) are to be called to the scene immdiately, or he is to be let go if possilble. All to avoid the appearance of Sir Rodney being picked on. Don't want another riot you know.
2003-04-16 07:20 | User Profile
Originally posted by Roger Bannister@Apr 16 2003, 05:07 ** FYI - friends of mine who are cops told me years ago that King is "red-flagged" in the system, meaning that if/when he is pulled over, sergeants (superior officers) are to be called to the scene immdiately, or he is to be let go if possilble. All to avoid the appearance of Sir Rodney being picked on. Don't want another riot you know. **
And the macaque has taken full advantage of this privilege.
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2003-04-16 10:15 | User Profile
**After the acquittal, riots broke out and lasted for four days, leaving 55 dead... **
No, they left 55 murdered. 55 freebie murders: no questions asked, no investigations, no indictments, no arrests. Go on, fellas, we'll chalk up those 55 bodies to, uhh, hot-headedness maybe, or them all-purpose 400 Years.
The Rodney King Aftermath affected the Bad Guys not at all. Fact, seeing how the entirety of the Culture At Large chose that moment to grovellingly bow and cater to Ghetto Roaches as though the "culture" of winos, whores and liquor-stopre stickup men was equal to any other and far far preferable to Ozzie-and-Harriet whitebread America, it's safe to say the looters and murderers were the big winners here.
It's metastasized like lymphoma in the nodes of the LAPD, though. Sure they were corrupt beforehand; so's every big-city pd (though nothing compared to the corruption now rampant with all those forced, look-we're-all-better-now, black & Mexican new hires forced on the department who mark time on the job, waiting for their off-duty gigs as drug-cartel muscle to begin). But it's a different sort of corruption killing the LAPD now....the kind where every arresting officer has to mentally consult a separate protocol of do's-and-dont's before performing any overt act of law-enforcement in the no-mans-land of the 'hood. Like playing keepaway with the handcuffs until a supervisor shows up every time a stoned Rodney King hits a private home head-on at 100 mph.