Sunday, June 17, 2012

"Can we all just get along?"

Those words may have followed Rodney King all his life in ways it was never intended.  

...The officers attempted CPR, (click here) which was continued when paramedics arrived, he said. King was taken to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton where he was pronounced dead at 6:11 a.m., he said.
Next-door neighbor Sandra Gardea, 31, said she heard commotion in King's backyard early Sunday morning. Gardea said about 3 or 3:30 a.m. she heard someone sobbing.
“It just sounded like someone was really sad,” she said. “There was a lot of moaning and crying. Another person was trying to console that person.”...
King became a symbol for police brutality and the trou