Photos: Celebrity deaths of 2012
Rodney King, the black motorist whose 1991 videotaped beating by Los Angeles police officers was the touchstone for one of the most destructive race riots in the nation’s history, was declared dead June 17, 2012 after being pulled from the bottom of his swimming pool. He was 47.
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