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LOS ANGELES  — 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, died Sunday. He was 47. King’s fiancé called 911 at 5:25 a.m. to report that she found him at the bottom of the […]

Rodney King was found dead at the bottom of a swimming pool by his fiancée earlier today. He was 47. Rodney King became a household…