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Rodney King
Rodney King (born April 2, 1965) is an African-American man who became famous after his violent arrest by officers of the Los Angeles Police Department during riots in 1991. His arrest was videotaped by a bystander, George Holliday, and... [more]
Rodney King (born April 2, 1965) is an African-American man who became famous after his violent arrest by officers of the Los Angeles Police Department during riots in 1991. His arrest was videotaped by a bystander, George Holliday, and the footage caused a public outcry over police brutality. See pictures and articles about Rodney King here.
Remember that $500 million program for small businesses Goldman Sachs announced along with its apology earlier this week? It was splashed on C1 of The Wall Street Journal and A1 of The New York Times, which wrote that "the bank said Tuesday that it would spend $500 million — or about 3 percent of the $16.7 billion it...
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Gingrich just wants everyone to all just get along:
“If we get into a cycle where there are Tea Parties and there are conservative third-party candidates we will make [Nancy] Pelosi speaker for life,” Gingrich told POLITICO in an interview Thursday, calling the practice “totally destructive.”
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From politics.nashvillepost.com
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Rodney King says boxing is helping him stay sober. King, whose 1991 video taped beating by Los Angeles police helped spark South Central riots a year later, is among a group of D-list celebrities barnstorming the country as part to the Celebrity Boxing Federation.
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From mercurynews.com
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Cop brutality figure Rodney King turns celeb boxer King in the ring By ORyan Johnson / Herald Exclusive Sunday, November 1, 2009 Rodney King, the famed police punching bag whose beating caught on tape put a bulls eye on cops and eventually led to the 1992 Los Angeles riots, has turned celebrity boxer and says hes aching for a rematch with one of the members of L.A.s finest who viciously pummeled him in March 1991. I was supposed to...
From freerepublic.com
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- Rodney King to fight in celebrity boxing event (syndication.boston.com)
In reply to The Embattled Librarian of Cheshire:
While I am not taking a position on the book, I will say this. The decision to include this particular book is tremendously insensitive to the remaining survivor where that survivor is asking the library not to carry the book. One would think people would be neighborly and respect his wishes. Common decency comes to mind.
Censorship has nothing to do with this issue except to the extent it can...
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