Can't we all just get along ?

Rodney King wounded in shooting

RIALTO, California (CNN) -- Rodney King, whose 1991 police beating sparked widespread rioting in Los Angeles and other U.S. cities, was recovering Thursday after being slightly wounded by gunfire.

Rialto, California, Police Department Sgt. Don Lewis said King was grazed on his face, arms, back and torso. The wounds were superficial. A shotgun was believed to have been the weapon used.

Lewis said that after King was shot Wednesday night, he rode his bicycle from San Bernardino to his home in Rialto, before calling police about 11:40 p.m.

Information on possible suspects or the hospital where King was treated were not immediately available.

Amateur video captured King's beating after Los Angeles police officers stopped him for speeding March 3, 1991. Police beat King repeatedly, delivering 56 baton blows and six kicks -- causing skull fractures, and brain and kidney damage.

Four officers were charged with assault with a deadly weapon and excessive use of force but were acquitted of state charges on April 29, 1992.

The three days of rioting that followed left 55 people dead and 2,000 injured. There were 12,000 arrests and about $1 billion in property damage in Los Angeles.

Two of the officers, Sgt. Stacey Koon and officer Laurence Powell, were later convicted of federal civil rights violations.

Since then, King has had a handful of run-ins with the law, including a guilty plea in 2004 to driving under the influence of a controlled substance and reckless driving.

how sad...

He's always having run ins with the law it seems....but when he was pulled over about 17 years ago and roughed up, they wheeled him out in a wheelchair, looking like he'd been through a war...IMO that caused more problems than it fixed.
His case caused the L.A. Riots, set the city back in race relations, and set a killer free...cuz without the fear of more riots, O.J. doesn't walk.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: sup-rbeast</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Lewis said that after King was shot Wednesday night, he rode his bicycle from San Bernardino to his home in Rialto, before calling police about 11:40 p.m.</div></div>

Reminds me of Deebo from Friday!

What the hell is he doin on a bicycle haha.....
but I guess its better for him to be on a bike since it seems like to me outher than this past instance with the law, he has always been in a car.

Gettin' the hell outta Dodge....

its still hard to believe that those cops were acquitted.

everyone knows OJ killed ron and nicole, and he shouldve been guilty, but damn those four cops should have been in jail as well.

All we ever saw tho was the aftermath of RK being pulled over...we didn't see what provoked it. The thing is tho, if he had been white, not much would have been said...and there would have been no riots...and OJ would have went to jail.

he reached for his asthma inhaler, remember?

he was stopped for DUID for something, i dont exactly remember.

the incident was the first to show the whole US that police brutality against blacks did happen.

WTF??? He may have been reaching for an inhaler...after leading police on a chase while under the influence, and becoming belligerant once he was stopped. He put alot of folks lives in danger and deserved a lil bit of a beat down regardless of his color. And, it was in no way the first incident to show police brutality against blacks...just the only recent one to spark riots. But, if I were a cop on that chase, I'd prolly want to beat his ass after he pulled over as well...and RK isn't a small man.

So running from the cops is means for a beat down?

Ever seen those TV shows of the Russian cops? They'll beat someone down for jaywalking. lol

And how in the blue blazes in hell were the cops supposed to know that he was reaching for an inhaler? When a man becomes that belligerent, more times than not he is looking for his blade. There were a whole lot of variables in that whole deal. As for brutality against blacks, that was more than returned when the thugs beat Reginald Denny with a cinder block- a man that unlike RK, had done nothing wrong except be white during that mess (much like the baby in Roanoke back in the civil rights movement who was snatched and stomped into jelly by 3 young black men) . That violence thing has went both ways

Running from them on a high speed chase in a city while under the influence, you mean???...hell yeah, that's grounds for a beat down. He could have ran over a kid or wrecked into a vehicle carrying a family and killed em all...so hell yeah.

True, but that didnt happen. He didnt kill anyone or hurt anyone. I could understand restraining him because it appeared he was reaching for something. But for them to beat him, like they did, was a tad overboard.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: sup-rbeast</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Running from them on a high speed chase in a city while under the influence, you mean???...hell yeah, that's grounds for a beat down. He could have ran over a kid or wrecked into a vehicle carrying a family and killed em all...so hell yeah. </div></div>

Now, had he ran over a poodle, I could justify the beat down...lol

I agree with that 100%. Of course, after burying my childhood best friend because of a drunk driver, I am a little biased. Excessive force is a touchy issue. There's alot of adrenaline involved when things get physical. Unless folks have had that situation happen to them, they really have no clue what goes on with the human body in cases like that. Bottom line: obey the law and save yourself an arse-beating.

No, but he put lives in danger...and if you had just climbed out of one of those squad cars, with the adrenaline and rage pumping (cuz you had seen incidents like that where someone was hurt...and he had just put your life in danger as well) you may have done the same thing. What he got was a lil overboard..but how do we know everything that really went on. When they say let me see your hand, that's what they mean. It's not exactly like this was the Wise Co. Sherriffs dept. pulling over someone for speeding..this is a totally different thing. BTW, I was in LAX while the riots were goin on waiting to go back to Schofield Barracks...and that was some crazy [censored] goin on that day.

I know that I have posted this on here before, but it's time to lighten the mood and this is appropriate lol

<embed width="448" height="365" src="http://www.ifilm.com/efp" quality="high" bgcolor="000000" name="efp" align="middle" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" flashvars="flvbaseclip=2458063&"> </embed> <h1>Chris Rock: How Not to Get Your Ass Kicked by the Police</h1><span>Posted Nov 26, 2002</span>

Chris explains what to do -- and what NOT to do -- when the Fuzz pulls you over.</p>

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: burton2019</div><div class="ubbcode-body">So running from the cops is means for a beat down? </div></div>
hell yes it is.

hahahhaha


are you serious?


simply evaing a police officer is BY NO MEANS WHATSOEVER grounds for the massive beatdown they layed on rodney king.

"The jury's verdict will not blind us to what we saw on that videotape."

the mayor of los angeles at the time.

and how in the hell should it be okay to beat down a dude for running from the police?

handcuff him and stick his ass in the car, dont utterly destroy him with batons.

The reason the mayor and others responded as they did was because of the unrest in LA at the time. But, still, with what he did, I can see why he got what he did. While the cops should have reigned in their anger a lil but, as for Mr. King, there is a price to pay for stupidity.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Biggin</div><div class="ubbcode-body">hahahhaha


are you serious?


simply evaing a police officer is BY NO MEANS WHATSOEVER grounds for the massive beatdown they layed on rodney king.

"The jury's verdict will not blind us to what we saw on that videotape."

the mayor of los angeles at the time.

and how in the hell should it be okay to beat down a dude for running from the police?

handcuff him and stick his ass in the car, dont utterly destroy him with batons. </div></div>

It really wasnt a BIG LOSS to society if something did happen to him, so who cares?