July 16, King was arrested at A. August 21, King crashed into a wall near a downtown Los Angeles nightclub. He had a blood alcohol level of 0. 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.
King failed field sobriety tests, but refused to submit to a blood test. He was tried and acquitted. July 14, 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, 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.
I felt like I was in another world. He went on to talk about his healing process, which included forgiving the officers who injured him. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life.
It takes so much energy out of you to be mean. After the beating, King continued to lead a troubled life, struggling with alcoholism and having brushes with the law. In , he pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of the drug PCP, after he lost control of his SUV and slammed into a power pole in Rialto, California.
In , he was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence, and in , police found him drunk with non-life threatening gunshot wounds also believed to be the result of a domestic dispute. Upon the 20th anniversary of the L. My country's been good to me, and I've done some things that wasn't pleasant in my lifetime, and I've been forgiven for that. In a final tragic twist, Rodney King's life ended on June 17, His fiancee, Cynthia Kelley, found him at the bottom of a swimming pool in Rialto, California.
Kelley had previously served as a juror in King's civil law suit against the City of Los Angeles. According to police who responded to the scene, there were no preliminary signs of foul play. King was pronounced dead at a local hospital, 20 years after the L.
Upon the 25th anniversary of the L. Riots, a slew of documentaries were released in the spring of Among them were L. On April 29, , the person jury issued its verdicts: not guilty on all counts, except for one assault charge against Powell that ended in a hung jury.
The acquittals touched off the L. On May 1, President George H. Bush ordered military troops and riot-trained federal officers to Los Angeles to quell the unrest.
Although Wind and Briseno were acquitted, most civil rights advocates considered the mixed verdict a victory. On August 4, Koon and Powell were sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for the beating of King.
On June 17, , King died at his home in Rialto, California. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us!
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Although the rough geographical outlines of much of the American West were known by , the government still had astonishingly
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