Rodney King, at Center of 1992 L.A. Riots, Dies at Age 47

via TMZ.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w-SP7iuM6k&feature=player_embedded

Famous tape of LAPD beating King which sparked riots in L.A. after not guilty verdicts of the police officers.

 

UPDATE 9:27 AM PT — According to our sources, King’s fiancée is telling friends King had been drinking and even smoked weed in the hours just before his death.

Rodney King — the man who was at the center of the infamous Los Angeles riots — was found dead this morning in Rialito, CA. He was 47.

According to our sources, King’s fiancée found him dead at the bottom of a pool.

Rodney King‘s fiancée is telling friends Rodney had been drinking all day Saturday … and had smoked weed in the hours leading up to his death … sources close to King tell TMZ.

According to our sources, King’s fiancée, Cynthia Kelley, is telling friends King was at the house all day drinking, and he smoked marijuana at some point, before she went to went to bed at 2:00 AM.

We’re told Kelley says she next saw King at around 5:00 AM when she was awoken by him screaming in the backyard. Our sources say Kelley found King naked, banging on the glass, and she called out to him, “What’s wrong, Rodney?”

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