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Rodney King Shot in Southern California

laist.com — Rodney King, whose videotaped beating by LAPD officers (and their subsequent acquittal) sparked the Los Angeles riots in 1992, was shot late last night, according to San Bernardino police. King was shot in the face and arm while riding his bike home to Rialto.

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  • DeviantDragon, on 11/29/2007, -3/+350"King was shot in the face and arm with a pellet gun (LA Times) or perhaps a shotgun (KNX, USA Today)" That's a pretty big ***** difference there.
  • inactive, on 11/29/2007, -24/+194dick cheney did it
  • FeartheKnighted, on 11/29/2007, -0/+90"Injuries are minor -- King, 42, completed his ride home before calling police."

    I'm guessing it was a pellet gun.
  • inactive, on 11/29/2007, -9/+99BREAKING LA IS BURNING
  • MattL920, on 11/29/2007, -5/+81Can't we all just get along?
  • iPissExcellence, on 11/29/2007, -0/+70"Injuries are minor -- King, 42, completed his ride home before calling police. Not much else is known at this point."
    After getting shot in the face!?
  • iamdb, on 03/26/2008, -3/+73Brother can't catch a break!
  • ted_hosmann, on 11/29/2007, -1/+60Ill bet those cops were very very nice when they showed up at his house...
  • Pake, on 11/29/2007, -3/+54Anyone else find it funny that he called the police?
  • sailadayaway, on 11/29/2007, -2/+53In other news:
    "Man scrapes knee after falling off bicycle"
  • FortyCaliber, on 11/29/2007, -12/+53Hey Digg-hippies... AT LEAST HE WASN'T TASERED!
  • AshamedAmerican, on 11/29/2007, -3/+42On tape or it didn't happen.
  • hokeywebb22, on 11/29/2007, -4/+40Oh no. Here we go again.
  • mrogi, on 11/30/2007, -3/+37Rodney King was awarded a $3.8 million tax free settlement for his 1991 beat down. The money did not change Rodney one tiny bit. He was a no good scumbag before he got rich, a pus-filled tumor when he was rich, and a pile of rat ***** now that his dumb ass is dead broke again.
  • SkippyDoorknob, on 11/29/2007, -1/+33...with a pellet gun
  • inactive, on 11/29/2007, -13/+38Rodney King > Chuck Norris. He got shot in the face and hand, still rode his bike home, got or had been intoxicated, and then called the police to report the crime. I want to be just like Rodney King.
  • Neiby, on 11/29/2007, -2/+26"Can't we all just get al....." BANG!
  • gn0stik, on 11/29/2007, -0/+23No, right guy. King said that.

    http://www.mediate.com/articles/noll9.cfm
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King
  • EdgarVerona, on 11/29/2007, -1/+21I heard it was a shotgun filled with pellets.
  • mablco, on 11/29/2007, -1/+20and george bush doesnt care about black people.
  • mongoloidplease, on 11/30/2007, -0/+17He's a classy guy.

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  • inactive, on 11/30/2007, -1/+17The cake is a lie!
  • MalDON, on 11/30/2007, -1/+16Birds?
  • Trumane, on 11/29/2007, -0/+14I used to work in that area, I think people just get shot at random around there. One if the worst parts of one of the worst cities in So Cal.
  • TedTschopp, on 11/30/2007, -1/+14That was a couple weeks ago....
  • OverkillTASF, on 11/30/2007, -1/+14Ok, since most of you seem to have gotten a firearms education from right clicking in Half-Life and watching the shottie plaster some poor sap on the wall... Shotguns can fire many different size munitions. From big 1 oz full-bore slugs to the well-known 00 buckshot, all the way down to almost a fine dust, "rat shot". Shot actually loses velocity pretty quickly once it exits the barrel. Just like with Cheney's news-item, being "shot by a shotgun" doesn't mean someone jammed a double barreled 12 gauge under some guys chin and pulled the trigger. If you've ever seen a skeet field, there's not a whole lot of distance between the field and civilization, despite the fact that most shots are taken at a high angle, which would lend to long trajectories. This is because shot does not hold on to its kinetic energy for long. Since they're not sure if it was a pellet gun or a shot gun, it was probably bird shot (As buck shot is significantly bigger than a standard .177 pellet or bb). A shotgun with a wide choke firing fine bird shot, you're only going to get hit with a few pellets and they're not going to get a whole lot of penetration. So, just because he wasn't a smear on the pavement doesn't mean he wasn't shot at and "hit" by a shotgun.
  • djphatjive, on 11/30/2007, -2/+15He then called the police and they said "HAHAhahahahahahahahhahahaaa!!!!!!" And hung up!
  • gn0stik, on 11/29/2007, -4/+17man, if it's just a pellet gun, this is a non issue, and is being reported why? Because he's Rodney king. An ex con who already had his 15 minutes, and can get his life together enough to buy a ***** car.
  • danwallace, on 11/29/2007, -3/+16Dippies?
  • rajun50, on 11/30/2007, -0/+12...smaller pellets
  • inactive, on 11/29/2007, -1/+13...with a pellet gun
  • johnn11238, on 11/29/2007, -3/+15If I was Rodney King, I'd have made sure I got home and LOCKED MY ***** DOOR before calling the LAPD. If I called them at all...
  • Nougat, on 11/29/2007, -2/+14Or a really distant shotgun.
  • digggggggggg, on 11/30/2007, -0/+12" Mike Davis of Stockton was riding home from work on Thursday when a pothole in the road caused him to lose control of his bicycle. Davis suffered a minor abrasion to his right knee. His injuries are not expected to be life threatening. "
  • krahzee, on 11/30/2007, -0/+12That kid from A Christmas Story is sooo screwed
  • Tabris, on 11/30/2007, -0/+11Yeah, that offensive jokes are funny.
  • Yaanu, on 11/29/2007, -0/+11I see nobody appreciates classic Bill Hicks.
  • weeeezzll, on 11/30/2007, -0/+11People didn't riot because King was a good man done wrong, they started the riot because bad cops (who committed a crime) were acquitted in light of clear evidence of their wrong doing.

    For years minorities have taken beating from cops and had little recourse other than their word against a cops, and we all know how that ends. When the video of King's beating came out it appeared to be a open and shut case. Needless to say, the minority community across the country was just a little upset at the lack of justice.

    There is never a good reason for a riot, and I'm not going to sit here and condone one, but don't try to trivialize what actually happened.
  • djh816, on 11/29/2007, -0/+11or possibly a shotgun.
  • weeeezzll, on 11/30/2007, -1/+11a joke...it was a ***** joke...you humorless turd....
  • weeeezzll, on 11/30/2007, -1/+11Apparently the LAPD's tactic of beating sense into criminals isn't panning out as well as hoped...

    (Wow....has it been 15 years since the LA riots? Man...i'm getting sooooo old....)
  • sundancekid503, on 11/30/2007, -0/+10Can someone grab me a new DVD player?
  • chrisinsocalif, on 11/30/2007, -3/+12Who are Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton going to blame for this one?
  • thejamabides, on 11/30/2007, -2/+11From what I understand, his inability to cooperate with police officers the first time around is what got his ass beat.

    This is why his inability to cooperate now isn't so surprising.
  • ngmcs8203, on 11/30/2007, -0/+8Sure can catch a bullet though... zing!
  • getoffmybridge, on 05/05/2009, -1/+9What a scumbag. "And now it's hands across America for this ***** total....son of a bitch! It blows my mind! And he walked!!!!"
  • Agrajag, on 11/29/2007, -0/+8He didn't call the LAPD, since he lives in Rialto.
  • DrewBlood, on 11/29/2007, -0/+7Pellet gun or shotgun...headline definitely sounds worse than it probably is though.
  • portableteejay, on 11/30/2007, -0/+7BIll Hicks FTW. Can no one identify satire?
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