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Rodney King
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 10
Top works
- The Martial Arts Game
- Harry Lee Kuan Yew Book - a Pictorial Account of His Life and Times
- Singapore's Education System, Myth and Reality
- Wild and Free in the City EBook
- Wild and Free in the City
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1947-09-21
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 228
- Total plays
- 3,682
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
· 2015 · cited 22,980x
- Synthesis of graphene-based nanosheets via chemical reduction of exfoliated graphite oxide
· 2007 · cited 13,061x
- Graphene-based composite materials
· 2006 · cited 12,069x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,443x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,814x
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Quotes
- “People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along? Can we get along? Can we stop making it, making it horrible for the older people and the kids? … It’s just not right. It’s not right. It’s not, it’s not going to change anything. We’ll, we’ll get our justice … Please, we can get along here. We all can get along. I mean, we’re all stuck here for a while. Let’s try to work it out. Let’s try to beat it. Let’s try to beat it. Let’s try to work it out.”
- “It made me feel like I was back in slavery days.”
- “You know, before when (the police went) to work, they used to be like, 'I'm gonna kick somebody's ass today and so I hope I can catch somebody in a bad situation or breaking the law, because I'm gonna beat someone's ass in a big way, I think that attitude has changed.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Rodney Glen King , ( 1965-04-02 ) April 2, 1965, Sacramento, California , U.S.
- Died
- June 17, 2012 (2012-06-17) (aged 47), Rialto, California , U.S.
- Resting place
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills
- Known for
- Victim of a police brutality case that led to public protests, riots, and police reform
- Notable work
- The Riot Within (2012)
- Spouses
- Daneta Lyles ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1985 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1988 ) Crystal Waters ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1989 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1996 )
- Partner
- Cynthia Kelley (2010–2012)
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- date of birth
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- date of death
- 2012-06-17
- name in native language
- Rodney King
- birth name
- Rodney Glen King
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Article
Rodney Glen King (April 2, 1965 – June 17, 2012) was an African American victim of police brutality. On March 3, 1991, he was severely beaten by officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) during his arrest after a high speed pursuit for driving while intoxicated on Interstate 210. An uninvolved resident, George Holliday, saw and filmed the incident from his nearby balcony and sent the footage, which showed King on the ground being beaten, to a local news station, KTLA. The station broadcast the film, which was rebroadcast by other stations, with this exposure precipitating riots.
At a press conference, Los Angeles police chief Daryl Gates announced that the four officers who were involved would be disciplined for use of excessive force and that three would face criminal charges. The LAPD initially charged King with "felony evading", but later dropped the charge. On his release, King spoke to reporters from his wheelchair, with his injuries evident: a broken right leg in a cast, his face badly cut and swollen, bruises on his body, and a burn area on his chest where he had been jolted with a stun gun. King described how he had knelt, spread his hands out, then slowly tried to move so as not to make any "stupid moves", before being hit across the face by a billy club, and shocked with a stun gun. King also said that he was scared for his life when the officers drew their guns on him.