Yes, but the sad part is "SOME" people want to point their fingers.

You are way too optimistic.

Conspiracy nut bags are going to believe whatever they want regardless of fact. Take the 9-11 Conspiracy people... I still make money off them by selling tinfoil hats regardless of all apparent evidence that 9-11 was a direct result of 19 Al Quida idiots only. Not all that "inside job" or "They launched missles/detonated explosions" BS.

My advice? Invest in Reynolds. Tinfoil sales are going to go up!

There's no Conspiracy:

He most likely died the same way Whitney Houston did. Alcohol or drugs, whether it be the night before his death, or during time spent in the pool. He fell asleep. The pictures of his home pool looks very small.

"Why Can't We All Get Along". Good point. That is what made him a famous person---A good phrase for Unity of all Peoples of Race, Color, and cultures.

He blew his 4 million dollars received as a settlement, but one has to remember he went into the LA Riots as an innocent victim of brutality by the Police Squad. Beatings--there is never an excuse for the treatment he got for driving into LA's unruly Rioting then.

Authorities have ordered toxicology tests in the death of Rodney King.

Why bother, this guy has been a loser from the begining.

Maybe you should wait for the facts Cheese Monkey... I didn't think so you to smart to fall for that. Enjoy your foil business. lol

A loser..that had a family and more money then you have made in your lifetime. How would you spend the rest of your life just being handed 4 mill and at the same time receiving death threats and dealing with the horrors he faced? I was probably 5 when this happened and don't know much on this but I did see the beating again on cnn last night and those 4 cops were lucky he didn't die from his injuries. they told him to get up and run because they were going to kill him. All in attempts to beat him some more and justify their actions. If he never got up all 4 would have been tried and convicted the first time. Instead they were acquitted (2 later found guilty). Ha if this happened today that riot would look like a cake walk.

Do you think the ones who hate everybody with a white skin will believe them? I am staying as far away from anywhere with a sizeable black community for quite awhile.

Marchant - he was a victim, but not innocent. This wasn't a case of mistaken identity or profiling. He wasn't taking a stroll through the park and a few bored police officers decided to jump him. He was pulled over because he was breaking the law. He essentially killed 50 people when he got behind the wheel of that car that night while under the influence. I think he knew that, and I think he had trouble living with that from some of the interviews I've seen since.

Sees Thru Gloss

Let's hope these toxicology tests put an end to any upcoming conspiracy theories surrounding Rodney King's death.

I hope not...I'm in the process or writing a book that will put forth my "theory" that OJ's son is behind Rodney King's death

...should sell well in the "community", at least

robbopaloobop You are hysterical!

Rodney King was someone's son, father, fiance, etc. He was a human being, even though some seem to think not. I feel sorry for people who have no heart, no empathy. Twenty years ago he was driving drunk, very poor judgment on his part. But, people are caught for drunk driving every day. How many of them get the hell beat out of them for it? lonereb, you've never been near a black community. you are probably one of those who say, "I have black friends." IN YOUR DREAMS! lol

OpenwidebBI44

Why are you saying it would be a cake walk? You mean they haven"t learned to behave like rational human beings yet? That statement is insulting to law biding black citizens!!!!! Grow Up!!!

I put $20 on .24

This is not news; a toxicology test is standard during autopsy. An autopsy is standard when a death occurs when the individual is not under doctors care or under suspicious circumstance. "Healthy" individuals who are found in a body of water dead are going to require an autopsy which requires a toxicology test.

Will we read about his possible hang nail too?

Dis po man a pillar of society neber did anyting wrong in his life. Oh what a loss what an incredible blow to society. Dead just when he was about to fill out his application for the Rhodes Scholarship. What a shame that this Saintly soul should have departed this life so young! The world will be a far worse place now that he is gone. However will America continue? I can't go on mye eyes are whelling up so badly.

Karma Biatch !

'WCF1957' wrote:

"Dis po man a pillar of society neber did anyting wrong in his life. Oh what a loss what an incredible blow to society."

REPLY: There you go, WCF1957, talking about yourself again. Hey, life's not all about you. Nor is it about your ignorant, racist, intollerant rants. When you look in the mirror, do you like what you see? When is the last time you embarrassed your family? (or do you even care?)

Here's a clue for you: Look up the definition of the word "pathetic" in the Dictionary. Then get over yourself; or does your life actually depend upon making a fool of yourself in public every day?

Why bother, this guy has been a loser from the begining.

Yep. All that lawsuit money that went through his nose will no doubt show up on an LC/MS/MS. Modern technology doesn't lie.

He essentially killed 50 people when he got behind the wheel of that car that night while under the influence.

How do you figure? Did he know the cops were going to beat him up and that it was all going to be caught on camera? Did he know those scumbag cops were going to get off? Did he know that people were going to riot because the cops got off? Comments like yours make no logical sense whatsoever! But, I guess it's easier to blame the victim, than to admit that the cops took it too far, that it was a complete miscarriage of justice that they got off, and that people were upset about it and made their own decision to riot. He was not responsible for that. In fact, when asked about it, he said, "Can't we all get along?" But then, what does logic matter to posters like you?

Robert in Oregon. Time to take your psych meds play time on the computer is over. The Dr wants you in group theray so you can discuss your repressed feelings of inadequacy. Take an anger management class before you go to your next Klan meeting. Step out of the trailer and get some air once in a while. Look up child molester in the dictionary. The picture you so proudly post indicates a sincere desire to inappropriately interact with small children. People in Oregon lock up your kids and farm animals Robert is back in Oregon. They let him out, again.

PanicMoon:

King was an innocent victim going into the Riots, yes indeed. He was wrong, again. in that he was under the influence. but did not participate in the Worst Racial Rioting in LA at that time.

I am not defending his 'habit", while driving. The police beatings were unecessary to the extent he almost lost his life. Cops overreacting, and out of control.

Gaizzer
OpenwidebBI44
Why are you saying it would be a cake walk? You mean they haven"t learned to behave like rational human beings yet? That statement is insulting to law biding black citizens!!!!! Grow Up!!!

I'm not insulting anybody..and you are not even black by saying they (that's how I know). I said cake walk simply because it wouldn't be as acceptable today as it was then. Thank you and come again !!!

Bi Polar,

I was thinking the exact same thing. This is Whitney Houston on a larger scale. You beat me too it!

Bi-Polar Wookie:

Please read my comment #1.3. Very similar sentiments re; Rodney King.

maybe it'll be a kardashian in a lake

Naked at 5:00 am, while going berzerk sounds like more than just alcohol and reefer. I have a hunch. I recall that "bath salts" cause people to take off their clothes and flip out, so maybe that will be in the auutopsy/toxicology report. At least Rodney did not injury anyone or try to eat off someone's face, as in the Miami zombie attack. If he had been drinking all day and smoking pot all night, he would have been fast asleep during the pre-dawn morning. All that alcohol depresses the central nervous system, causing the individual to pass out or at least to sleep excessively.

Hey Bipol:

Elvis started it all!!!!

Toure in a lake.

Bi-Polar,

Type a comprehensive list of other celebrities that succumbed to drug over dosages.

You could have added Anna Nicole Smith and John Belushi.

You wish to "peddle" the myth that African Americans have a patent on drug use.

However, you are quite wrong.

Drug addictions cross all racial lines.

I think that Zimmerman dude killed King and Whitney, he's such a racist its the only thing that makes sense.

Yes, yes, yes, I am wandering too. But God is great, and he is in control even when we don't think he is. God will prevail, and we will keep on trusting.

And a very poor attempt at that.

justice...

It's gang kids killing other gang kids. As long as they keep it in the "hood" and don't expand it to my area, I really don't care how many gang-bangers kill each other.

It is news because MSNBC wants to pull up all the old footage so they can inflame the blacks because they aren't getting enough play off Trayvon any more. It is money and ratings and who cares if it explodes we will just make more money then.

I was thinking the same thing. Honestly, as far as I know, anytime a autopsy is performed they do toxicology tests and they do an autopsy anytime there is an unknown cause of death. This is to be expected.

I have sufficient knowledge of this subject (30 years as a RN) to know that toxicology tests are always ordered in circumstances like this. It was an unwitnessed death. That's enough reason to order toxicology tests by itself. And it may be that the particular coroner's office does toxicology tests for every autopsy.

Move along, folks. Nothing here to see.

Give it a rest you black racist

Isn't RACIST , it the truth....

Yeah... no justifiable reason... failure to obey police orders, resisting arrest, oh, and he was STILL able to resist and fight after being tasered... yeah, no justification at all.

one was hispanic

Was the hispanic one named Zimmerman?

King was the only one that got "justice", the 51 others that got killed and the thousands that were injured never got Justice. While King should not have been beaten, by the officers, he should not have resisted arrest either. The Mob violence that followed should not have killed the others that day. The City taxpayer, and the property owners lost that day, the others made out like bandits.

They beat him for no reason other than that he led them on a high speed chase, resisted arrest, threw officers off him, grabbed for guns, and was hyped up on some drug. Other than that he was just minding his own business when the officers attacked him. The story claims someone videoed much of the incident. Yeah, the person videoed everything except the high speed chase and most of Rodney resisting arrest and attacking the police.

Met that was 20 years ago if this explodes in your face it won't be the white officers who get hurt. It will be the black people in the poor neighborhoods who get hurt again. Just like every other time. But your state is broke and pretty much so is every other and the feds so don't look for us to rebuild this time. We have our own problems.

Met008, Would the incident have lead to riots if the Police officers would have been black? Rondey King was a tool used by others for an excuse to start the riots. It wasn't news worthy if it white men were being viciously attacked by law enforcement. Yes Racism is alive & strong in the US what make it worst is the gov & special intrest leaders like Sharpton used/uses it to keep our country divided.

If you fools think that being beaten almost to death for being high and running from the police is justifiable, I would like to hear what you would say if it happened to you, a loved one or a friend. By your absurb logic, anyone (white, asian, female etc) who resists arrest should receive a near death beating, right?

I'm not justifying what the police did but it wasn't racist, if it was racist the passenger who was also black would of been harmed(which he was not). Rodney King was an alcoholic and a drug addict, he alone is to blame for the riots and for his death.

MET008, "He was beaten for no justifiable reason" Yeah right. Of course you would not know that because the liberal media NEVER showed the WHOLE video. Did you know that TWO other BLACK people were arrested with him, without incident? He repeatedly CHARGED and KICKED at the arresting officers. He was so high on drugs that he broke free of the first set of hand cuffs placed on him and assaulted SEVERAL officers. However, the only part of the video the liberal media show is the police wailing on him. I lived in California when this happened. I watched Reginald Denney get beaten within an inch of his life by people who look like me, permanently maimed and unable to work. Did the city give him 4 million dollars? Quit it with the racist conspiracies or you'll never get off the victim plantation.

One of the white officers was hispanic. It must have been Zimmerman's dad oh my it's a conspiracy. Poor Rodney riding down the road minding his own buisness when the Police just jumped up and started beating the crap out of him. Cops just being cops and King just being King. Did King give any of the loot to Reginal Denney who was beaten and crippled by Rodney's relatives? No he just took the money and ran.

"Victim of a unjust tragedy"? Give us a break, he had a lengthy rap sheet before the beating and even afterward. He did'nt learn a thing!

@mas -- when pulled over he attacked the police, when tasered he lunged at the one with the taser. why would he fight you might ask? he was on parole and was looking at a violation, ie going back to jail plus new charges.

I'm sorry that you're blinded by the media hype, but when you ask to get beaten into submission like that, you get your @ss handed to you.

BTW -- in the ambulance on the way to the hospital he laughed and spit blood at the officer riding with him.

You need to look up the definition of tragedy. Not only is 'unjust tragedy" redundant, it is simply not applicable to what happened to Rodney King. While I do not believe in unnecessary violent means to subdue a suspect, he wasn’t walking along the street minding his own business when he was jumped by a bunch of cops. He was breaking the law. In Houston there was outrage (but no rioting) over a kid who was kicked while being apprehended after breaking into someone’s home. The “victim” has since been arrested for another break-in. I wonder how his victims feel? Probably wishing he had learned his lesson the first time.

As unfair and harsh as it is, here’s the reality of it, folks: You can take control of your life and reduce your chances of being beaten up by the PoPo by 99.9% if you don’t break the law.

He wasn't a victim, he made stupid choices that day that effed the lives of the whole city. Because of his stupid decisions many others were injured and died. He just waisted his life, even with the millions he go, that some would have used to better themselves. Some blacks just wanted an excuse to go riot in the streets and kill people. But many gang killings go on each and every day and not a peep.

Because of his stupid choices 50 other people who had nothing to do with it died. That is the tragedy.

If Rodney King was a "victim"...it was of his own stupidity - which he publicly displayed time and time again

The real victims were people like Reginald Denny and all of the other innocent whites who were beaten or murdered during the LA riots

Yes, that is the tragic, since than the LAPD has learned to tr all treat races with dignity and respect. What did it take:

10).Atlantic Slave trade

9).Transatlantic Slave Trader

8). The Emancipation Proclamation 1861

7). The Board of Education v. Brown (1954)

6). The Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968)

5). Civil Rights Act-1964 amended many times. Who benefits the most? White Womention

4). Equal Protection Clause- of the Fourteenth Amendment (Al l Men Create Equal) still not a reality)

3). Voting Rights ACT of 1965

2) Rodney King

1). Arizona official may keep Obama off Ballots because of his birth certificate

Now, this isn’t make believe this is real………it is all about race……here in America.

Blacks are not racist. Everyone has prejudices. Racists are the powers that be. So you racist whites should watch out, because soon, you will not be the power. The Mexican and other spanish speaking people are over-taking you and they are spreading all across America. AND THERE ISN'T A THING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. You can't willie lynch or jim crow them.

You whites that are racist keep your feet on the black man's neck, but the blacks did not cause 911, and we are not taking over "your" land. This is no longer white America, and one day soon, the congress won't be either. One day, the President of the United States will be President Gutierrez or Sanchez. lol

@Linda Blacks are not racist???? Wow, how stupid can you be?

Jean58,

Great post!

The intellectually deficient die-hard racists ignore facts.

Ignoring the facts is what allows these foolish beings to perpetuate their racists' nonsense.

It is not beneath them to lie and to say that the slave trade was "all made up."

Well said, Jean. Hats off to you.

Yes, he was the victim of a savage beating. Unfortunately, the lesson to be learned was one the wider society needed to learn. Judging from the nature of many of these comments, they are not able to be educated.

He didn't waste it. The people that needed to learn the lessons offered wasted them. Just look at the majority of the comments for evidence of that.

Take a walk through Watts and see if you are accepted.

Huh?

Barrack...............is that you?

Charlie what did he say?

"Johnny and the Mothers are playing Stompin' at the Savoy in Vermont tonight."

Either an idiot troll or someone high on bath salts. Or an idiot troll high on bath salts.

Hawk, you better go hide in your attic, were coming for you right now......

@jean58, I have no love for the LAPD, never have never will. But for all the Howard university facts you failed to mention two things about a one Mr. Rodney King and it was the missing 45 seconds of tape that was never shown till the trial. That was of a one PCP ridden King throwing an officer like a rag doll and charging at him like a mad man (The original incident that started the crowd to tape). By the time four other officers were on the scene King had already trounced the other two at the scene. Now King should have felt damn lucky they hadn't blown him away first. Ever dealt with a someone hooped up on PCP. It's not Pot Mr. University. It doesn't make you want to eat, be lazy, quote Jim Morrison poetry. No It imbues you with a rage that is damn near demonic. Should they have beaten king badly...no They should have fired around 4 rounds into him as soon as he threw the cop a few feet. And Don't say he was a model citizen, look at the guys rap sheet, heck less than 6 years later he was hooped up on cocaine/liquor and tried running down three non LAPD cops with his car. He got some jail time for that but they let him walk after he used most of that money to get off from the settlement. The guy was scum, end of story So please stop reading the texts to find what the race card is doing. Right now we have a president in office (lesser of the upcoming evils) who didn't use a race card to get to office. No he never acted like a African guerrilla fighter in the streets, he got educated, stuck with the people who he would benefit from the most and had the world experience and achieved POTUS. Heck I'm pretty sure he's whiter than I am. So does that mean I can sue the govt on grounds that he's using MY race card to get ahead. shesh

Hawk,

lol One of the few trolls that actually put a lil effort in his trollin'...

We could if we wanted too, but unfortunately we are humans the highly intelligent creatures of the land without regards for mankind. Our maker will be back soon and I hope we can answer for our unjust behavior.

I'll get along I had my fun with riots. It is y'alls turn to get the crap scared out of you at 6:30 in the morning.I will hide as far away as I can.

Ya'all's turn? Now that is funny. Spoken like a privleged white man. LOL. Seriously, dude, get some help with that victim role you seem to want to play. If you were so traumatized by blacks being several blocks from your house, get some therapy and get over yourself.

Fay when you have my memories and have walked in my shoes then you have the right to judge and not before. You haven't lived through a riot. You haven't been told to get your butt back in the house by someone pointing a machinegun at you.. Don't judge me until you have.

Sounds to me as if your white behind was being protected. Get over yourself. And get some therapy.

He wasn't homeless nor did he ask you for anything. Think about that next time you swim in your pool at the house that you own. It good thing he didn't fall for sub-prime mortgage scandal that our elective officiasl turn their back to pad their pockets. Hope your house is safe from foreclosure.

Someone hit a nerve Jean? Story has nothing to do with foreclosures!

No, no nerve was hit!! It is about a life, not about his settlement money. That is the nerve that was hit...... and how no one can connect the dots because they to foolish to know the differences........

Welll of course...because black men all smoke weed and crack, and have no idea how to handle money, right?

Well said, Jean. Thank you for your words, and for being human. There are so few on here.

Pleaaaaase...give me a break!!!!! How many innocent people died because he chose not to do what police asked him to do. I am not saying that they were right to beat him the way they did but he caused the problem in the first place.

Jean the race card is played out. If you want to stop racism the first thing that has to happen is young blacks have to quit telling the same people who marched for your freedom that we owe you something because of something that happened to you 200 years before our people left europe. I owed you nothing and even if I did I already paid the debt between 68 and 71.

Lonereb,

There is no race card that is an illusion facts are facts.................... u haven't given me anything........... I am educated in spite of you. So are my children and my grandmother, who attended a Howard University, who left imprints in all of her offspring. Here are the facts just in case you missed it:

10).Atlantic Slave trade

9).Transatlantic Slave Trader

8). The Emancipation Proclamation 1861

7). The Board of Education v. Brown (1954)

6). The Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968)

5). Civil Rights Act-1964 amended many times. Who benefits the most? White Womention

4). Equal Protection Clause- of the Fourteenth Amendment (Al l Men Create Equal) still not a reality)

3). Voting Rights ACT of 1965

2) Rodney King

1). Arizona official may keep Obama off Ballots because of his birth certificate

@liz to blame the lost of other lives on Rodney King is such a long and stupid stretch of your imagination. People disobey police officers everyday. How can you blame an addict for what the police and others did afterwards?! Like he was thinking to himself, "Oh let me not run from the police because they will beat me half to death, someone will video tape it, it will be played on every news station around the world, the police will be tried, acquitted and LA will explode in riots." Yeah because normally this is what happens.

@lonereb - We get it. You are distrustful of black people and it seems to me that you just don't like us. I can almost guarantee you that we don't care. Can you find another thread to vent on? This one is about the death of Rodney King. Thank you.

liz-523093

Pleaaaaase...give me a break!!!!! How many innocent people died because he chose not to do what police asked him to do

Liz,

Your post is absurd.

Factually, tell this forum because of Mr. King how many people died?

People died because a nearly all white jury acquitted white police officers of beating a man so savagely that it took 5 hours of surgery to repair the damage they did. Want to blame someone for the riots? Blame the jury and the LAPD, as well as the inequality of justice that continues in this country.

I get a laugh out of this response every time I hear it. What this translates to is, "MSN is trying to disprove all the lies we racists want the public to hear". Thats always referred to as stirring the race pot..

No, the race pot is real!!!!!!!! So for all of you who can't be real......get off line.......do what you do best....hide

No Freedom4Everyone MSN doesn't care about the blacks or the whites or anyone else this sells. They would be ecstatic if a riot broke out. Think of all the money they could make off of that. Jean would you like to hear what it really feels like to face a machinegun at 6:30 in the morning because black people started a riot four blocks from your house. Would you like to have that as vivid as the day it happened in your mind everytime something like this starts. So vivid you can see it like a bad TV show with no sound. I will never be free of that memory. Barefoot white T-shirt and worn jeans looking down the barrel of that gun at 19 years old. Thank you for making my life a living hell everytime something like this comes up and you open your racist mouths.

No Sweetie,

I had the National Guards, sending be back into my house at age eleven, unable to cross the tracks to go to school, where white people lived, because they thought we were may start a riot... I was a third grader. It sounds like you were being protected..........as usual!!

The schools were closed, Liar.

Why were you still in the 3rd grade? At eleven years old you should have been in the 5th or 6th.

Just check his spelling....he just may have been.

Lonereb <><><> I am sorry you faced the barrel of a machine gun. It must have been terrifying. I, too, faced the barrel of a gun (not a machine gun, but at close range it could have killed me just as dead). It was night and I am white and the holder of the gun is black and my elderly mother was with me and guess what! I was also terrified! I am not suggesting that what happened to you is justified because of what hppened to me. But, it is also true that what happened to you does not justify what happened to me.

Looks like drugs to me.

Which doctor?

Micael Jackson's doctor maybe?

That money was gone long ago, poor investments you might say.

@obummer Actually, most of that money he got from the settlement went to legal costs/fees. Just a little FYI.

USAFCOP ..... I'm sure that a lot of that settlement money went to legal fees, but MOST of it ??? NO WAY !!!

obummer,

May I suggest you hang on to your firearms, I'm hanging onto mine. We'll be needing them when Zimmerman is aquitted of that whole Trayvon misunderstanding!

Schoolyard,

Maybe you should take a little initiative from your username and go inside the class room and get schooled. The playground is bringing you up empty.

He abused his ex-wife, he had so many legal cases. Mr. King was also lucky because I bet after the beating the courts only convicted him once (after the L.A. Riots). What many people are saying that after the monies that he won $3.8 million he did had an opportunity in life to make a difference. A positive difference but he chose what ever path in life he wanted. Legal fees didn't consumed the entire settlement that he won by court. He had a house with a pool. He could have 2 or 3 small schoolarships for African-American high school graduates, present himself in person, let the media and all the channels to see his small accomplishment. The amount could have been between $15,000.00 to $25,000.00, or some community service for the young or senior citizens that reside in L.A., but he chosed to spend it on women, supposed friends, boos, drugs. We have to STOP making excuses for Mr. Rodney King.

He was a wife abuser, alcoholic, drug addict, theaf (stealing at grocery stores). So please check the real information on this human being. We all know that he commited many mistakes. Did you get to see Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew on VH1?

Then you missed the lesson you should have learned. Not surprised.

i agree, i would let them beat my arse