{"id":4256,"date":"2011-03-07T17:21:35","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T22:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4256"},"modified":"2011-03-07T17:21:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T22:21:35","slug":"rodney-king-pulled-over-by-police-one-day-short-of-beating-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4256","title":{"rendered":"Rodney King Pulled Over By Police One Day Short Of Beating Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rodney King<\/strong> was reportedly pulled over by police in Arcadia, California for running a red light the day before the 20th anniversary of the savage beating he received from the LAPD.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>King<\/strong> was reportedly given a citation by police not for running the light, but for driving with an expired license and wound up calling a friend to take him and his fianc\u00e9e home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>King<\/strong> was savagely beaten by four white police officers following a high-speed chase in a Los Angeles suburb on March 3, 1991. The nine-minute lumping was caught on camera by an onlooker and the footage eventually reached the entire world, touching off a strong debate on police brutality.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the footage, the four officers were acquitted a year later, sparking huge riots in the Black community. Fifty-five people died, 200 were injured and the onslaught of lootings led to $1 billion worth of property damage in the LA area.<\/p>\n<p><strong>King<\/strong>, who was left with brain and kidney damage from the whooping, was eventually awarded $3.8 million in a lawsuit he settled with the city of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rodney King was reportedly pulled over by police in Arcadia, California for running a red light the day before the 20th anniversary of the savage beating he received from the LAPD. King was reportedly given a citation by police not for running the light, but for driving with an expired license and wound up calling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}