Report: Rodney King Died From Accidental Drowning — Also Had Alcohol, Cocaine, Marijuana & PCP in His Blood
- Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:55pm by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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In this May 1,1992 file photo, Rodney King pleads for an end to the rioting in South Central Los Angeles, in Los Angeles. (AP File Photo)
Rodney King died in June of an accidental drowning, though alcohol, cocaine, marijuana and PCP in his system were contributing factors to his death, CNN reported.
King’s autopsy results had been expected Thursday, more than two months after police officers in Rialto, Calif. pulled the 47-year-old out of the bottom of his pool on June 17. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Police at the time said there was no indication of foul play and were treating the case as a drowning death. King’s fiance had called 911 at about 5:30 a.m. reporting she had found him in the pool.
Rialto Police Capt. Randy De Anda told CNN the autopsy results were consistent with the police investigation’s conclusion.
King was the black motorist severely beaten by Los Angeles police officers during a traffic stop in 1991, with the officers’ subsequent acquittal touching off the deadly 1992 Los Angeles riots.
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Comments (124)
mobynowak
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:47pmEvery time I hear about an Eagle Scout like King die, it just tears me up.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 2:51pmWow, a lo life who died full of narcotics,,,,,who’d a thunk it………..
Report Post »Wolfgang the Gray
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 3:13pmIn the end, he was his own executioner.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 3:19pmWonder where Reginal Deny is now?
Report Post »DrunkGOP_Hack
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 3:40pm…another BLACK lo-life!
I am just going to play the RACE game like the “NEW Black Panthers Party” does!
Get along, right!
Report Post »pavnvet
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 4:03pmI am shocked beyond words. Who would have ever thought that Rodney King would be a substance abuser? <sarcasim
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 4:53pmThat is No Accident… That is a SUICIDE!
Report Post »Mojoron
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 5:03pmWhy can’t we just all get along, I’ll bring the cocaine, PCP, MaryJane and top it off with a little booze that way we can not give a **** why we get along.
Report Post »PaBowHunter
Posted on August 24, 2012 at 1:43amNoooo…..this mustn’t be true. Rodney was a victim of brutal cops.
It is a crying shame that multiple cops’ lives were ruined over this POS.
Report Post »SCREW-WINDOWS
Posted on August 24, 2012 at 2:06amAnd they wonder where the stereotype comes from.
Report Post »ThePostman
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:46pmCome to think about it, maybe Ron Paul is right – maybe we should allow liberals to have all the access to drugs that they want.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 3:23pmIf that happens, they should use a portion of Death Valley to bury them in when we find them lying in the streets of America. That would clean up most of the welfare rolls and hospitals. It’s a start.
Report Post »DrunkGOP_Hack
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 3:49pmGive to the “GIMMIEDAT” group!
Report Post »FREEDOMoverFEAR
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 7:23pmRon Paul thinks states should have the right to legalize drugs. He stated, however, that he would not vote in favor of legalizing most street drugs.
Report Post »SquareHead
Posted on August 24, 2012 at 10:00amRon Paul is right. Rodney King destroyed his life WHILE IT WAS ILLEGAL, so obviously the results of the drug war does not justify the cost.
Rodney might not have been speeding away in the first place if there was no threat to put him in jail for years for possession?
The government rarely does anything well, and to put them in charge of protecting ourselves from ourselves is crazy. Once you do it with drugs, the next is alcohol and then food.
We all have probably known people waste their life on drugs and they were able to do that while it was illegal. The government does not want to legalize it since it is a great business for all the the officials in the drug war business. We have over a million people in jail for non violent drug charges, and I don’t want to pay for them anymore. What about the reports that we are backing certain drug cartels, and helping them fight other drug cartels, and allowing them to bring drugs in?
If we legalize all drugs we will strip the government of allot of power. The billions saved could be used for treatment and education. Besides ones we make it legal the prices would drop, and one could not make any more money dealing drugs, and the lost youths could not have the easy access to quick money and would learn to get a real job like the rest of us.
NO MORE NANNY STATE
RON PAUL 2012
Report Post »Cabo King
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:45pmA model citizen!!! where is dat babys daddy?
Report Post »bikerdogred1
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:40pmSo the L.A. cops where not wrong with what they did.
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 2:38pmMAN on a MIssion….
Report Post »I am glad you aren’t republican too. What is your mission???………to become the top drug dealer in your neighborhood? To sign up the most illegals in your area to vote for obama???…To get out of jail?……or maybe you simply tried to break in a mission and your ladder fell down…so now..you are standing on top of a Mission.?????
RedheadedStepchild
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 2:47pmI didn’t see anything in this article that even infers the premise that he deserved being beat down in 1991. Now if a person is on PCP and Cocaine…they do not feel pain or react like they should..and he wasn’t some boyscout minding his own business either… IF just pointing out what the man had in his system when he died makes this website racist – wow…seriously? I know there are racists that make comments on this website and I take them to task everytime. I don’t need people like that masquarading like they share my values. The article was just stating facts…if you get all testy about it makes me wonder where your mind is at. The guy unfortunately was drug addict and should not have been some black civil rights icon…there are far better canidates for that position.
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 2:49pmThe first thing that came to my mind was, with all the money the City of LA had to fork over to this man, it made no difference. He finally had a bundle of money and still didn’t change his lifestyle. Guess what I’m saying, is a hoodlum is always a hoodlum with our without money. So, some of you people who think money makes the difference, think again. It’s WHO you are, not the money.
Report Post »GeneTracy
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 2:51pmMan On A Mission
Report Post »Spare us your RACIST name calling crap.Rodney King had 20 years and a $3.8 million settlement,plenty of time and opportunity to straighten his life out.Just ask the city of L.A. if it was worth it to support this loser.
grimmster
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 4:04pm@man onamission aka encinom.
Report Post »You, like all the left sure like throwing the word racist out there.My question to you is, how many people in real life have you said that to, assuming you’ve been out the front door of mommys house?!
LeadNotFollow
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:40pm…
Report Post »Black men can’t swim, even when they are sober. (Just kidding folks.)
Dolvett Quince and Terry Crews sank like rocks on “Stars Earn Stripes”.
bannedfromCNN
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:40pmIf Soetoro had a son, he’d wind up like poor Rodney.
Report Post »Verceofreason
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 2:08pmSo Obama used his step father’s last name for a few years.
He was never legally adopted.
Why does that seem to be some kind of issue you rubes?
Report Post »Hey! HUSSEIN HUSSEIN HUSSEIN
RedheadedStepchild
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 2:52pmIt is the same as name calling and it is done on both sides so if you want to pretend that only “rubes” do it, then go ahead and delude yourself. If you like the fact that he has the name Hussien…great, but to wonder why people might find it disconcerting – especially when it is considered a taboo to use it prior to his election -then you are not an open minded all compassionate all knowning liberal are you?
Report Post »TheMajority
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:37pmMy best whishes to his family and friends.
Report Post »Wango
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:36pmAh yes, another story about a black man and drugs. Hey, I bet all those conservative black people you’re touting are drug addicts too! Better not let them into the convention.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 2:42pmWhat’s the matter WINGNUT-O? You have to politicize even the death of an unfortunate man like Rodney King? Are you really that desperate? Your liberal compassion is just dripping off this board champ isn’t it?
Report Post »Keep going “forward” with your race baiting little camper…lol.
Sirfoldallot
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 2:44pmQ Wango – awww , ur short bus will be coming soon.
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:35pmCouldn’t have happened to a nicer fella… I know.. Pretty harsh, but he was deserving of it.
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:33pm…
Report Post »Alcohol, cocaine, marijuana, and PCP. Possibly the same cocktail he was on in 1991
That’s probably why the cops had to beat him down for resisting arrest. It had nothing to do with racism.
King was a no-good bum in 1991, and was still a no-good bum in 2012.
dan182j
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:33pmSeriously! Who didn’t see this coming the moment he passed away. Once a druggie always a druggie
Report Post »avgconservative
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:27pm“Life is tough, but it‘s tougher if you’re stupid.” – John Wayne, “Sands of Iwo Jima”
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 2:05pmGreat quote
Report Post »scootervanneuter
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:22pmRodney King was actually a soft-spoken gentle man who couldn’t stop drinking. The fact he was black is immaterial – I’ve known many white men with the same demons.
Report Post »Verceofreason
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 2:09pmFOX is a ‘reinforce your prejudices channel’
Report Post »This is an outgrowth.
I come here for laughs and to feel superior.
Man-On-A-Mission
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 2:18pmAbout time someone with sense….what happen to Rodney King was a dam shame…and anyone whom believes in freedom and liberty should believe the same. The cops were the Judge, Jury and Executioner that night…..That is not America.
Report Post »avgconservative
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 3:13pmVerse…
Go smoke some more crack.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 3:29pmhttp://youtu.be/Wc_SgpyJWRY
Report Post »FREEDOMoverFEAR
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 7:26pmIt’s easy not to be racist. Just don’t hang out with people of different races.
Report Post »mlcblog
Posted on August 24, 2012 at 4:45amYour comments are classic. HItler was a sweetheart, too, a vegetarian. Face it. Rodney was a doper.
Report Post »RightThinking1
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:21pmIt seems that drugs, alcohol, and stupidity can’t “just get along”.
Report Post »digitalist
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:21pmSo he really was the **** bag doper that the cops made him out to be? I’m so shocked! o.0 /facetious.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:34pmRodney King was better man than when he 1st became known nationally. Just because a person doesn’t defeat their demons does not make them a horrible person without redemption.
Rodney King was not a Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Leornard Jeffries, Louis Farahkhan, Spike Lee going after other groups because of their inherent racism & talking of ice people & sun people.
Many if not most people in this society are addicted to drugs from food (obesity), Nicotine, sex (client #9), etc. It causes them to go to their graves prematurely or cause other chaos. Some people are into religion for the high it gives them instead of just living religiously for its’ own sake to live a clean life.
May Rodney King Rest in Peace.
The people we should be mad at are the news media who give us CLIPS. they edit all events leading up to an event they want to slant. Those are the people who we should reserve contempt & condemnation. They are still a live & still editing, slanting & shading.
Report Post »Wango
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:37pmBreitbart had most of this stuff in his system when he hit the curb. But you didn’t hear about that on the right wing media..
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:39pmRodney King was a big man hopped up on drugs during the incident. Tazers were not going to bring him down.
The people to arrest were the news media for mob action. They showed extremely edited clips. A few times they showed more lengthy clips but that did not make their case. So they purposely stopped showing the longer clip & showed the shorter one. It was a conscientious decision to try to win political points & shape America.
If it means a 100 people go to jail from the news organizations, then so be it. Life imprisonment would be just.
Report Post »Dancing_In_The_Ruins
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:57pmExactly, He kept blaming “The Man” for his problems when he should have been blaming “the man in the mirror”. When he was on Doctor Drew’s CR he blamed the Police for his problems and never took the responsibility himself.
Reminds me of a certain president.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 2:18pmAndrew Breitbart’s toxicology report revealed that he had only a few sips of red wine in his system. No drugs, no murder, but simply heart failure.
Report Post »WALKABOUT, I have to agree with you. King has had his rough times, but was something of a better man when he died. As you said, he was just never able to defeat the demons that he brought upon himself.
Walkabout
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 2:21pmAndrew Breitbart
An autopsy by the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office showed that he had cardiomegaly and died of heart failure.[32] The toxicology report showed “No prescription or illicit drugs were detected. The blood alcohol was .04%. No significant trauma was present and foul play is not suspected.”[32] Personal friend of Breitbart, Bill Whittle, had said that Breitbart had a “serious heart attack” just months before his passing -wiki
So wikipedia is right wing?
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 2:24pmWango or Wanko or whatever you are
A short web search go this from a very liberal gay website
Report Post »http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2012/04/no-drugs-in-andrew-breitbarts-system.html
Sirfoldallot
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 3:34pm@ wango – there is no Right wing media numd nutz
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 4:42pmAnd like a good lefty WINGNUT-O…you recite the idiocies your keepers tell you to recite.
Report Post »Nevermind the toxicology report..WINGNUT-O can produce some pimple-faced twenty-something marxist blogger who’s website gets filtered through some servers in the former Yugoslavia (and who uses that nifty Guy Fawkes mask from V for Vendetta as an avatar..natch) who has “proof” that Breitbart was loaded with drugs at the time of his death.
Don’t stop there WHACKO…please feel free to include the Rosicrusians and the grassy knoll in your unhinged conspiratorial assault on a dead man.
Wango
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 7:05pmAVENGECAKE . . .Ooh, Rosicrusians . . .and twice in one day! Spend some quality wiki time, did you? Gracious I would say so. What’s next, Kristallnacht? That would make Glenn so proud. Give it a try, but be careful, it’s a bugger to spell.
Report Post »floridareader
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:15pmAnyone that add water to a cocktail like that, will die. I bet someone is trying to sue the water company.
Report Post »Want our country back
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:27pmlol
Report Post »jackact
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:14pmWhat else is new?
Report Post »I think he was arrested many times prior to ‘the incident’ of years ago.
And also subsequently a few times after.
Same stuff as usual: drugs, alcohol, public disobedience, violent behavior, petty theft.
Of course complete silence from the race baitor’s.
Those were all black-on-black crimes.
Can‘t go all ’Trayvon’ in those cases can we?
blackyb
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:11pmStud-E that was a good one. I am thinking most of those in the black (many whites as well) community who supported this man, took his advice. That is what is the matter with this country. The politicians on dope as well as those who are not. The whole country is going to pot.
Report Post »the_zazzy
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:14pmHe sounds like the good upstanding, law-abiding citizen he always was. God rest his soul!
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:11pmWhat a shock – this is how most addicts die.
Report Post »Spankster
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:30pmTrue Dat.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:08pmThis is who many in the black community supported during the “Rodney King” heyday. This is the kind of thinking that is destroying this country. Wonder if “they are all just getting along” now?
Report Post »Spankster
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:41pmThey didn’t support him,they used him for an excuse to go out and show everybody who and what they really are.Lying,thieving crooks and thugs.And then some Lawyer saw $ signs for him and this Jerk,and the rest is history.Do I care that he drowned..No, am I going to miss him and his almighty wisdom…..you must be joking.
Report Post »korbin
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:04pmGood riddance he is a poster child for the welfare system. Was the poster child. You can take the man out of the hood but you cant take the hood out of the man. Waste of tax payer money as usual.
Report Post »Soundbyte
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:22pmThat’s pretty cold. He was obviously a flawed individual and nobody should die like that. Stop being so mean.
Report Post »korbin
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:36pmI appreciate your comments and rarely do I explain myself however I can assure you I have more experience with death from drugs/alcohol than just about anyone, including two brothers, father on and on and on. They made choices as I have made choices, I have struggled with the same demons however it doesn’t negate the personal responsibility we all should have. This new society of blaming everyone for their plight is just wrong.
Report Post »nobull14
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:03pmSo what else is new ?
Report Post »bannedfromCNN
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:38pmWith this revelation, we now know more about Rodney King‘s medical history than we know about Soetoro’s.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 2:26pmBill Clinton sealed his medical reocords also.
Would Bill Clinton have been elected if the public had known how many time he had been treated for venereal disease of various sort.
There was a reason why Hillary despised Bill.
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:01pmMoney well spent in that stimulas body
Report Post »Stu D. Baker-Hawk
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:00pmI understand that Rodney‘s dying last words were ’Why can’t we all just get a bong?’
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:00pmAt least he wasn’t into S&M, that would have been an ironic ending. On the other hand, he sure went out not feeling any pain.
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