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Rodney King - Wikipedia. Rodney King. King in April 2. Born. Rodney Glen King III(1. April 2, 1. 96. 5Sacramento, California, U. S. Died. June 1. 7, 2. Colton, California, U.
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S. Cause of death. Drowning- drug overdose. Occupation. Taxi driver. Known for. Victim of police brutality. Spouse(s)Daneta Lyles(m.
A witness, George Holliday, videotaped much of the beating from his balcony, and sent the footage to local news station KTLA. The footage shows four officers surrounding King, several of them striking him repeatedly, while other officers stood by. Parts of the footage were aired around the world, and raised public concern about police treatment of minorities in the United States.
Four officers were charged with assault with a deadly weapon and use of excessive force. Three were acquitted of all charges.
The jury acquitted the fourth of assault with a deadly weapon but failed to reach a verdict on the use of excessive force. The jury deadlocked at 8. The acquittals are generally considered to have triggered the 1. Los Angeles riots, in which 5.
California national guard was called in. The acquittals also led to the federal government's obtaining grand jury indictments for violations of King's civil rights. The trial of the four in a federal district court ended on April 1. The other two were acquitted again. Early life. He and his four siblings grew up in Altadena, California. He threatened to hit the Korean store owner with an iron bar, then hit him with a pole.
King stole two hundred dollars in cash during the robbery and was caught, convicted and sentenced to two years imprisonment. He was released after serving one year of the sentence. Both of King's marriages, to Danetta Lyles and Crystal Waters, ended in divorce. Prior to driving onto the Foothill Freeway, the three men had spent the night watching a basketball game and drinking at a friend's house in Los Angeles. This suggests that his blood alcohol level may have fallen from 0.
California. At 1. Tim and Melanie Singer, husband- and- wife members of the California Highway Patrol, noticed King's car speeding on the freeway. The officers pursued King, and the pursuit attained high speeds, while King refused to pull over. After approximately 8 miles (1. King in his car at the corner of Foothill Boulevard and Osborne Street (3.
The first five LAPD officers to arrive at the scene were Stacey Koon, Laurence Powell, Timothy Wind, Theodore Briseno, and Rolando Solano. Bryant Allen was manhandled, kicked, stomped, taunted and threatened. Helms was treated for a laceration on the top of his head. King remained in the car. When he finally did emerge, he was reported to have giggled, patted the ground, and waved to the police helicopter overhead. Singer approached, gun drawn, preparing to effect an arrest. At that point LAPD Sergeant Stacey Koon, the ranking officer at the scene, told Singer that the LAPD was taking tactical command of the situation.
He ordered all officers to holster their weapons. As four officers attempted to restrain King, King resisted by standing to remove Officers Powell and Briseno from his back. The officers later testified that they believed King was under the influence of the dissociative drug phencyclidine (PCP). This marks the approximate start of the George Holliday videotape of the incident.
In the tape, King is seen on the ground. He rises and rushes toward Powell. Officer Powell strikes King with his baton, and King is knocked to the ground.
Powell strikes King several more times with his baton. Briseno moves in, attempting to stop Powell from striking again, and Powell stands back. Koon reportedly said, .
Koon orders the officers to . King is then placed in handcuffs and cordcuffs, restraining his arms and legs. King is dragged on his abdomen to the side of the road to await the arrival of emergency medical rescue. George Holliday's videotape of the incident was shot from his apartment near the intersection of Foothill Blvd and Osborne St. Two days later Holliday contacted the police about his videotape of the incident, but they ignored him. He then went to KTLA television with his videotape, although the station edited out ten seconds of the video, before the image was in focus, that showed an extremely blurry shot of King charging at the officers; the cut footage would later be cited by members of the jury as essential to the acquittal of the officers. Portions of it were aired numerous times, and it .
The tests also showed traces of marijuana (2. King sued the city and a jury awarded him $3. District Attorney Ira Reiner felt there was insufficient evidence for prosecution. Led by attorney Warren Christopher, it was created to conduct 'a full and fair examination of the structure and operation of the LAPD,' including its recruitment and training practices, internal disciplinary system, and citizen complaint system.
The officers' jury consisted of Ventura County residents: ten white; one Latino; one Asian. Lead prosecutor Terry White was African American.
On April 2. 9, 1. Powell. The men who beat Rodney King do not deserve to wear the uniform of the LAPD. Those civil rights leaders with whom I met were stunned.
And so was I and so was Barbara and so were my kids. By the time the police, the U. S. Army, Marines and National Guard restored order, the riots had caused 5. Smaller riots occurred in other cities such as San Francisco, Las Vegas in neighboring Nevada and as far east as Atlanta, Georgia. A minor riot erupted on Yonge Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada as a result of the acquittals. During the riots, King made a television appearance in which he said . On May 7, federal prosecutors began presenting evidence to a Los Angeles .
On August 4, the grand jury returned indictments against the three officers for '.. Sergeant Koon for '.. King. On March 9 of the 1. King took the witness stand and described to the jury the events as he remembered them.
He strongly criticized King, who he said provoked the officers' initial actions. Judge Davies stated that only the final six or so baton blows by Powell were unlawful. The first 5. 5 seconds of the videotaped portion of the incident, during which the vast majority of the blows were delivered, was within the law because the officers were attempting to subdue a suspect who was resisting efforts to take him into custody. Davies found that King's provocative behavior began with his .
Davies made several findings in support of the officers' version of events. He concluded that Officer Powell never intentionally struck King in the head, and . The judge acknowledged that having two such trials did not legally constitute double jeopardy, but nonetheless it . The low sentences were controversial, and were appealed.
In a 1. 99. 4 ruling, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rejected all the grounds cited by Judge Davies and extended the terms. The case was then appealed to the U.
S. Powell were released from prison while they appealed the Ninth Circuit's ruling, having served their original 3. On June 1. 4, 1. 99. Kelly was one of the jurors in King's civil suit against the city of Los Angeles when he was awarded $3. King successfully sued the city and won $3. King invested a portion of his settlement in a record label, Straight Alta- Pazz Records, which went out of business.
On August 2. 1, 1. Los Angeles. In July 1. Alhambra police after hitting his wife with his car and knocking her to the ground.
He was sentenced to 9. He failed to yield to police officers and slammed his vehicle into a house, breaking his pelvis. He reported that the attackers were a man and a woman who demanded his bicycle and shot him when he rode away. Drew, which premiered in October 2. Drew Pinsky, who runs the facility, showed concern for King's lifestyle and said King would die unless his addiction was treated.
He and Pinsky physically retraced King's path from the night of his beating, eventually reaching the spot where it happened, the site of the Children's Museum of Los Angeles. His appearance was aired in the third season episode . They say I deserved it. Other people, I can hear them mocking me for when I called for an end to the destruction, like I'm a fool for believing in peace. He was transferred by ambulance to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton, California and was pronounced dead on arrival at 6: 1. On August 2. 3, 2. King's autopsy results were released, stating he died of accidental drowning, and that a combination of alcohol, cocaine, marijuana, and PCP found in his system were contributing factors.
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