Rodney King, the man who was at the center of the infamous Los Angeles riots, was found dead this morning, TMZ has reported. He was 47.
According to TMZ, King’s fiancée found him dead at the bottom of a pool. CNN has confirmed his passing.
King recently marked the twentieth anniversary of the three-day mayhem that took place after the acquittal of four Los Angeles police officers involved in beating him in 1991. The beating, which was caught on camera, sparked national outrage and put King at the center of heated debate on the state of race relations in America.
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