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Rodney King Dead at 47

Was found in pool by fiancee in possible drowning

By Polly Davis Doig,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 17, 2012 10:24 AM CDT

(Newser) – Rodney King, the motorist whose videotaped beating at the hands of white police officers spawned riots that engulfed Los Angeles in 1992, has been found dead at the age of 47. Sources tell TMZ that King's fiancee found him dead at the bottom of...   Read full story »

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