More like a symbol of stupidity.

If you run, you get chased.

"STOP" has a meaning in the English language.

The man was a failure as a human being and nothing to be proud of. Go ahead and build a monument or statue of the man if it makes you happy. Good greif, dont you have a better example of humanity to show us?

Wow! professional race-baiter and con-man Al Sharpton delivered the eulogy. That a-hole never misses a chance to grab the spotlight, does he? Most people's eulogy is delivered by a family member or friend but there were cameras and a chance to fan the racist flames so, of course, good old Al was willing to "step up". What a f u c k i n g dirtbag. And for all of you who are gonna jump on me because you love old Al, you need to wake up and smell the s h i t he's shoveling. He panders to people and pushes their buttons for one reason, ONLY. He makes a VERY nice living off of stirring up racial tension and convincing blacks that they are always being "victimized" by whitey. He wouldn't have given Rodney King the time of day if it didn't play into his agenda of taking advantage of people that buy his load of crap.

you can take the @!$%# out of the jungle....but you cant take the jungle out of the @!$%#

Over 1 billion dollars in looting and damage.

And while they were taking TVs, computers, jewelery, clothes etc.

You could have stopped and asked any one of them.

"Is this about Rodney King"?

And the response would have been "Rodney Who"??

King was a horse's ass. He had a long history of crime before and after he was beaten. I'm not saying his beating was deserved but he is not somebody that we should look up too. He is not a hero. He was a low-life that should fade away.

Heck yeah, for a few million, I would forgive you for almost anything.. And the fact that he ran from cops, then fought and resisted arrest was a public mockery of the police and the justice system. Not allowing all the of the video tape to be shown in court is the justice system itself mocking police and the justice system. The cops didnt beat King because he was black. They beat him because he was doped up, breaking the law and resisted arrest.. If he had of been a decent citizen and not another useless addict, the cops would not have needed to pursue him. Had he been a respectable and respectful person, he would not of ran and resisted arrest. Anyone that intentionally runs and or fights the police deserve to be beat down. With todays technology and video tapes, its easy to see if a cop starts beating on someone unprovoked.. Then of course, punish the cop.. But when videos show that scum bag ran and resisted arrest.. Scum bag should have felony charges of aggravated assault added on. Not an avenue of making millions off their own dirt bag lives.. May King RIP in his after life, but as a human, he was a POS. Along with the two other POSs Sharpton and Jackson, they are poster children for why racism will continue to thrive.

Damn, just look at that group standing behind Sharpton. Looks like a riot in the making.

The man had many personal demons he was combating and did stupid things I agree but I swear and truly believe and feel deep down inside when those demos weren't in control he was a decent human being.Iv'e seen many personal friends who destroyed their lives. And all were good people. Drugs and alcohol have a lot to do with it but there are underlying reasons why they abuse those things.

I'm sad for him that he lost the battle.

Criminal and idiot made a martyr, go figure... I dont care what his color as a person is a person. fact is he was wrong and got caught and then played the martyr card like a coward instead of stepping up and saying Ya, I was wrong to start with... He caused A LOT of unnecessary grief, pain, malice and destruction just cos he couldn't step up and be a good person to start with.

Blah,blah, blah, same old argument we have heard for 100 years.. There is discrimination of all types going on all the time with all races. There are no contradictions, King was in and out of trouble all his life, period, end of story. It is quite possible, King was GUILTY... but of course because of his skin color, he was automatically, determined innocent by ones who were not present at the time of his arrest. And such as is happening with Zimmerman when the court system or police, start reversing decisions because of the media attention, we are heading for serious trouble in our judicial system. How would you like to be tried by the media, we used to do that, we would round up a few folks that saw it like we did, go run down the person, it was a hanging. It goes like this, in the last election. 98% of black people voted for Obama, but 52% white people voted for him. Which means, that the 98% black voted for him, simply because he was black, yet the white people obviously gave it some thought, and about half did. The point is... if you did happen to look at these types of issues not with glasses of race but objectively, your whining would be more convincing. NO president should be elected simply because of color, it is far too important a position to make such a simple decision. The issues at hand will affect generations of our kids lives. I don't know if either of these two examples were guilty or not, I was not there. In this case I would have to trust our judicial system to make the right choice with a jury of there piers.

good riddance! what a pos!

why would we care what about the military? does anyone care. this man was a convict that should of had his ass beat by his family oh sorry he did not have family to help him was in a split family they did not get state to help them OH so sorry poor me .

F' that boy scout Obama...Let's toast a 40 to one badass ni99er!

July 27 1987: According to a complaint filed by his wife, King beat her while she was sleeping, then dragged her outside the house and beat her again. King was charged with battery and pleaded "no contest." He was placed on probation and ordered to obtain counseling. He never got the counseling.

November 3, 1989: King, brandishing a tire iron, ordered a convenience store clerk to empty the cash register. The clerk grabbed the tire iron, causing King to fall backwards and knock over a pie rack. King swung the rack at the clerk and fled the store with $200. King was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon, second-degree robbery, and intent to commit great bodily injury. In a plea agreement, King pleaded guilty to the robbery charge and the other charges were dropped. He was sentenced to two years in prison, but was paroled on December 27, 1990.

The Arrest of Rodney King on March 3, 1991

March 3, 1991: After being seen speeding on the 210 freeway by CHP officers, King led them on a chase at speeds estimated at up to 110 to 115 mph. When finally stopped, King refused requests to get into the prone position and appeared to charge one of the officers. He was beaten and arrested. King was charged with felony evading. Charges were later dropped.
King's 3/3/91 Arrest Record

King's Trouble with the Law After March 3, 1991

May 11, 1991: King was pulled over for having an excessively tinted windshield. Although King was driving without a license and his car registration had expired, King was not charged.

May 28, 1991: King picked up a transvestite prostitute in Hollywood who happened to be under surveillance by LAPD officers. King and the prostitute were observed in an alley engaging in sexual activity. When the prostitute spotted the officers, King sped away, nearly hitting one of them. King later explained that he thought the vice officers were robbers trying to kill him. No charges were filed.

June 26, 1992: King's second wife reported to police that King had hit her and she feared for her life. King was handcuffed and taken to a police station, but his wife then decided against pressing charges.

July 16, 1992: King was arrested at 1:40 A.M. for driving while intoxicated. No charges were filed.

August 21, 1993: King crashed into a wall near a downtown Los Angeles nightclub. He had a blood alcohol level of 0.19. King was charged with violating his parole and sent for sixty day to an alcohol treatment center. He was also convicted on the DUI charge and ordered to perform twenty days of community service.

May 21, 1995: King was arrested for DUI while on a trip to Pennsylvania. King failed field sobriety tests, but refused to submit to a blood test. He was tried and acquitted.

July 14, 1995: King got into an argument with his wife while he was driving, pulled off the freeway and ordered her out of the car. When she started to get out, King sped off, leaving her on the highway with a bruised arm. King was charged with assault with a deadly weapon (his car), reckless driving, spousal abuse, and hit-and-run. King was tried on all four charges, but found guilty only of hit-and-run driving.

March 3, 1999: King allegedly injured the sixteen-year-old girl that he had fathered out of wedlock when he was seventeen, as well as the girl's mother. King was arrested for injuring the woman, the girl, and for vandalizing property. King claimed that the incident was simply "a family misunderstanding."

September 29, 2001: King was arrested for indecent exposure and use of the hallucinogenic drug PCP.

RIP - to the true King of resistance who shat on European Imperialist domination. Long live the African Revolution.

Rodney King got what he deserved, and a little too late. And he was backed by al sharpton, give me a break. AL was as big of an idiot as Rod. I dont know why people are crying about a piece of s^$t like Rodney. He caused all of that stuff that happend to him. Soldiers and Marines die every day giving there life for this country and people dont give a crap. If Idiots like AL and Rodney are the ones America wants to remember and Memoralize then I think that this country deserves to be the s*^t buckets of the world. Rodney was one of the worst that America had to offer and we remember him, ill remember him when I tell my kids who not to be like and when they ask me who they should be like ill point to a photo of Pat Tillman. For those of you who dont know who Pat Tillman is he gave his life defendig the U.S.A. and that was after he was offered a contract by the NFL, Pat loved his country and Rodney lived money and Drugs.

and all this time i thought he was a symbol of a dope smokin welfare bum.

why did it take so long to bury him? he's been dead for 2 weeks?

If Al Sharpton and Jesse Jerkson loved Rodney King so much, why did I hear a recent report that his family couldn't afford to pay for Rodney's funeral? Perhaps the aforementioned race hustlers could put their money where their big mouths are for a change and make a donation to Rodney King's family. That is, of course, when they've finished cashing in on justice for Trayvon.

So all you Rodney King fans that are upset that the police were found not guilty, when OJ was aquited of killing 2 white people? How many riots did those angry white people start after the verdict?

and the truck driver who got pulled out of truck and stomped and beaten actually forgave his attackers and even live on tv and yet he isn't mentioned as a symbol of forgiveness--What a PC reverse prejudiced new world we live in--What F!@#$% G joke

Who farted? No one gives a @!$%#e what happened in 1991 or the early 1800s.

Yeah, yeah a great American Hero. Don't let the door hit you where the good lord split you Parasite ! Too bad you can't take the rest of them with you.

As Mr. King would say " CANT WE ALL JUST GET ALONE".

R.I.P Mr. King.

I dont care what he was doing or not doing before the police billy clubbed his head. He could have pulled out a automatic machine gun and fired on them for all that it matters, the fact is no one deserves to get beaten by the police like that when your sitting on the ground. You look at that video and tell me when he's sitting there on the ground getting clubbed repeatedly in the head by a macho cop with the cops 15 other "good guy" police men buddies standing around like its business as usual for them, that he deserved that. Someone sitting on the ground getting night sticked across the head like that, does not deserve that, period.

When your layed out flat on the ground, hands spread out, giving up, that's also not the time to get stun-gunned and billy clubbed. Anyone who claims that the police did not use exsessive force is lying to themselves. If that was your son or daughter or mother or father, brother or sister every single one of you would be singing another tune. That man was beaten, unjustly by a corrupt police dept. and thank god it was caught on video so the world could see that just because your a police officer doesn't mean your a "good guy" as they like to call themselves...

Rodney King being Memorialized? What a joke. Now we will all be confused when driving through a city with a population over 25,000. There will be ML King Drive and RKing Dr. They both lead to the hood but which one do you take? Rodney King was just another ex con who decided to resist arrest and got his ass kicked. He got a big payoff which he drank and drugged on and died a broke jerk like he lived. If you have time to memorialize him you do not have much going in your life. Me, I celebrate one more moron gone who cannot procreate. Another opportunity for Big Al to get his face on TV. Where is his clone Jesse J.? must be shaking down some corporations for Operation Push.

The same thing will happen when Zimmerman is released.