Rodney King
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Rodney Glen King was an African-American man who on March 3, 1991 became a victim of police brutality when he was severely beaten by officers of the Los Angeles Police Department during his arrest aft
King in April 2012
King with fiancée Cynthia Kelley a few months before his death. Kelley was one of the jurors in King's civil suit against the city of Los Angeles when he was awarded $3.8 million.
Al Sharpton
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Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr. is an American civil rights and social justice activist, Baptist minister, radio talk show host, and TV personality, who is also the founder of the National Action Network
Rodney King
…the subject's heart condition, probably precipitated a cardiac arrhythmia, and the subject, incapacitated in the water, was unable to save himself." Al Sharpton delivered the eulogy at King's funeral. King is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, California…
Sharpton in 2025
Sharpton leading the first protest march over the murder of Yusef Hawkins in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, 1989
Sharpton at the National Action Network's headquarters, 2007
Jesse Jackson (third from left) and Sharpton (third from right) at an anti-impeachment rally at the US Capitol in support of President Bill Clinton (fourth from left), December 17, 1998