Rodney King Sr., 80, Newport, passed away on Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. today at the McClure-Schafer-Lankford Funeral Home with burial in Newport Cemetery.

Footage of black motorist Rodney King being beaten by four white police officers in LA in 1991 - while others looked on - caused outrage around the world, and was a major factor in triggering ...

And I think you know it reminds me [sic] of OJ Simpson and, to some extent, of the Rodney King case where everybody was so primed to think one way that they were shocked that there was a defense.