If You Had Rodney King In Your Dead Pool, He’s Dead In His Pool, Too

LOS ANGELES — Rodney King, whose beating by Los Angeles police helped spark the 1992 L.A. riots, died Sunday at his home in Rialto, Calif. He was 47. King became a symbol for police brutality and the troubled relations between the Los Angeles Police Department and minority residents. He was eventually awarded a $3.8 million settlement, but the money and fame brought him little solace. He had repeated run-ins with the law and recently said he was broke. “I sometimes feel like I’m caught in a vise. Some people feel like I’m some kind of hero,” he said in an interview with The Times this year. “Others hate me. 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.” King’s fiancee called 911 about 5:25 a.m. and said she had found King at the bottom of his pool, Sgt. Paul Stella said. Officers pulled him from the pool and began CPR until paramedics arrived and took King to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 6:11 a.m., Stella said. Preliminary information indicated that King drowned and there were no signs of foul play, Stella said. An autopsy will be conducted. (read more at BangorDailyNews)

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