RIALTO, Calif. - Rodney King, whose videotaped beating led to the deadly 1992 riots in Los Angeles, was hospitalized with a broken pelvis after he lost control of his SUV while weaving through traffic at 100 mph and crashed into a house, police said.
King, 39, was spotted Sunday by a police officer who said King was speeding and weaving through traffic in his 2003 Ford Expedition when he slammed into a utility pole, a chain-link fence and then the home, police said. No one in the home was injured.
Police said they suspect that King was intoxicated, and a blood sample was drawn to determine his blood-alcohol level. Test results have not yet been released.
King was not arrested, but a report detailing the crash circumstances will be submitted to prosecutors, police Lt. Kathy Thompson said.
King, who is black, was chased by police through the San Fernando Valley in 1991 and was captured on videotape being beaten by four white officers.
After their acquittal, riots broke out and lasted for four days, leaving 55 dead and more than 2,000 injured. The mayhem caused $1 billion in property damage.
King later received a $3.8 million settlement from the city of Los Angeles in 1994.
He was convicted of spouse abuse in 1999 in San Bernardino County and was sentenced to 90 days in jail and four years probation.
So when do we decide enough is enough? His subsequent conviction of spousal abuse and this most recent incident of crashing his car into a house at 100mph (allegedly drunk) ought to be enough to convince any intellectually honest person that the incident in 1991 was NOT MOTIVATED BY RACE. Sure, a deadbeat, wife-beating, drug-abusing, criminal was engaged in criminal activity at the time (DUI, evading, obstruction, etc) but there seem to be some in our populace who think it’s okay since he’s black. Those psychos like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and a handful of whites with guilty consciences drove this bandwagon that led to the riots in 1991.
TIME OUT - are these the same jackasses that are complaining about the looting and rioting in Iraq right now? Wow, and to imagine those people have been tortured and oppressed for 30 years and are looting GOVERNMENT OFFICES to take some property purchased by a tyrannical dictator with the money that belonged to them while they lived in poverty all this time. Of course, that’s not as noble as rioting to protest the acquittal of a couple of police officers who were doing their job and putting bad guys away. It’s understandable that 55 died and 2,000 were injured at the hands of some disgruntled sheep following a leader like Jackson who makes money playing cards…..race cards, class cards, etc. Give me a break!
Back to the story at hand. At what point can we wake up as a nation and realize that Rodney King is a drain on society? Acknowledge that he’s the worst of the worst and ought to be locked up for good? When is it alright to say to a convict that he’ll be held accountable for his actions and should forfeit the $3.8 million he was undeservedly given? Race had nothing to do with his 1991 traffic stop…. not until the race-mongers got a hold of the tape and saw the dollar signs in their own eyes.
Yuk it up Jackson, Sharpton, and the rest of you jokes of humanity, your divisiveness is coming to an end. Your race cards have been played out and we’re not going to tolerate it any more. Your “spokesman” for equality has proven himself to be the thug we all knew he was. It’s obvious his beating in 1991 had NOTHING to do with race. NOTHING.
