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Rodney King is Dead

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From TMZ:

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. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ they responded to a call at 5:25 AM PT. We’re told they physically removed King from the pool and attempted CPR.

Our sources say he was pronounced dead at 6:11 AM.

Rodney’s fiancee claims that in the hours prior to finding him dead, Rodney had been drinking beer and smoking pot. Pretty much all day long:

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?”

Kelley is telling friends she then went to grab her phone when she heard a big splash. She then went to the backyard and discovered him in the bottom of the pool and called police.

Well. That’s kind of bizarre, right? And I’m just saying, she left him in the bottom of the pool and called police? I know that Rodney was probably bigger than her or whatever, but in those kinds of cases, wouldn’t you at least try to pull the body out of the water and then call police? Even if you were too panicked to start emergency life-saving procedures like CPR, you think you’d at least try to help the dude not drown before calling police? I mean, what happened in the interim? Did she see the body in the pool, call police, and go and sit down on a lawn chair ’til the paramedics arrived? What the hell is that all about?

RIP Rodney King. Jesus.

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  • Actually, I would know I couldn’t pull him out of the pool on my own, so I wouldn’t try, either. Trying would jut delay everything. But I might be calling 911 on my cell phone while I was running to the neighbors’ to try to get help to try to pull him out of the pool. But you can never predict how people will react in an emergency. Some people are kind of useless.

  • Checkitout, it doesnt matter how big he was, he is practically weightless in water, plus I’m sure at one end of the pool there had to have been steps so my conclusion is, she didn’t want to save him. NOW, if she ends up together with some other dude within a week, then that proves my point! Drinkin, smokin weed, shit, XYZ couldn’t have put it any better.

  • what the heck y wouldnt she let him in when he was banging on the door for help all blody an crap sounds like foulplay to me!!!!!!

  • Rodney King added no value to society andhe admitted it. He loved his booze and drugs and being a leach on society.

    I say good ridence of bad rubbish.

  • Now we will never know what Rodney King did really say to the Police Men to infuriate them so much to the resulting beating, which he deserved for mouthing off so very badly to the Authorities! He was just an arrogant and stupid man who believed he was above the Law!