King, whose beating by Los Angeles police in 1991 was caught on camera and sparked riots after the acquittal of the four officers involved, was found dead in the swimming pool at his Rialto, California, home on June 17, authorities and his fiancee said. He was 47.
King was "in a state of drug and alcohol-induced delirium" and "either fell or jumped into the swimming pool," said the autopsy report released by the San Bernardino County coroner Thursday
Whatever mr kings problems were he is a hero to our community. He stood up at a time when laps could do whatever they wanted to us with no reppercussions. Had it not been for people like Rodney king, Geronimo Pratt, rosa parks and the rest I would have never had the opportunities I've had. They stood up while being beat down. And I respect that
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DeleteRodney became another statistic, if you looked up to him, you got issues and should contact EAP before you get a pee pee test....it's not too late
DeleteDid you know that most of the money Rodney King got from his lawsuit went to crack cocaine. He admitted that on a VH1 show.
ReplyDeleteI am just stating a fact.
King was a dirt bag from beginning to end, not quite the person I would want representing my " community".
ReplyDeleteMichael Vic and OJ saved me, and made my live what it is today.
ReplyDeleteLol! Thats a good one ....lol
DeleteWell said ivory. I'm glad someone had the guts to put it out there so strongly
ReplyDeleteWell Mr King did opened many closed doors to police brutality/eye opening.King had some issues that should've and could've been delt with all the $$$$.He was arrested numerous times in Rialto and felony flats/Fontana and still not change his ways.You live by the sword and die by the sword.....I'm jus saying
ReplyDeleteRodney King was a piece of trash from the day he was born to the day that he finally died. He was not a civil rights hero like Rosa Parks. He was a piece of shit drug abusing, woman beating, robbing, convicted felon.
ReplyDeleteAgree, and I don't work at Central and I'm not Caucasian!
DeleteDitto, brother!
DeleteI've known ivory for years. He is just a puppet militant. Repeating whatever he hears on bet like he thought it up
DeletePutting Rodney King in the same breath with Geronimo Ji-Jaga and the respectable Rosa Parks is criminal. I get your point, but Rodney King was garbage. If he was a law abiding citizen and got beat down then he could be seen as a hero for his community.
ReplyDeleteCorrect spelling for repercussions not reppercussions.... :)
ReplyDeleteIt's a proven fact that mr king never had a drug problem before the beating he received at the hands of the lapd. After that beating he started using drugs to self medicate for his physical and mental injuries. We just discussed this at my church and I have all the facts if you care to hear it call me in twr 5. I'll show you the truth
ReplyDelete@ 12:19. Great name. Very fitting to your comment. I get it
ReplyDeleteRodney king and Geronimo Pratt were both POS. I remember when Geronimo Pratt was in deep seg. Kind of funny how we kept catching him with dope. And that other POS suge knight same thing. Maybe people like were the reason
ReplyDeleteK.ivory,
ReplyDeleteI really hope you are not a Correctional Officer. If I were a squad member at your institution I would be watching you closely. You are obviously extremely sympathetic towards convicted felons!
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DeleteRoberts, can you shut up?
DeletePretty ignorant statement Roberts. What, you feel threatened if an officer and an inmate speak the same slang? Does that mean they are on the same side suddenly? Then, am I supposed to be nervous if I hear a hispanic CO having a conversation with inmates in spanish or spanglish...does that mean he's relating to that inmate? Of course not. Even inmates who talk the same slang will throw blows at eachother in a heartbeat...so slang doesn't signify some kind of alliance. There's definitely NEVER excuse for fist bumping at all. But just because officer/inmates have cultural similaraities doesn't mean the officer is sympathetic any more than it means the inmate is an informant. And for you to say "most" shows you are way over-generalizing. I have worked shifts where it was all black officers and have yet to see a black officer bump fists with an inmate. I've seen one inmate bump fists EVER, but I wont say his race because his race doesn't matter -> it doesn't mean that all his people do it. And most of the black officers I've talked agree that black inmates are the most annoying to deal with, because not only is there no structure or control, but they also have the mentality that we black officers owe them something.
DeleteAnd the Fullerton shooting was a perfect example of people gettign outraged when a white guy was the victim of police excessive force. So your last sentence is not fact.
"Can't We All Just get along"
ReplyDeleteBig Ivory much props for putting your name on it regardless if I agree or disagree with your assessment , it takes Big Balls to take a stand which most may disagree with, as for @645 Ivory is a straight up guy and give inmates what they got coming no more no less ,26+ years in the dept. and it's no doubt to any one that's worked with him that he has your back and will put in work to save his partner's ass ....by him putting his name under his post definitely shows that he's a leader and not a light weight especially knowing that he would receive backlash over it..K. Ivory we can partner up anyday bro!!!
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Deleteyeah thats frickin heart felt...so you and him put a pic of rodney king and martin luther king in ur home and tell ur kids they were equally fighting for the cause......MLK will roll over in his grave.. and just because u and ur church talked about it dont mean crap...REALLY RODNEY KING.....REALLY. YOU MUST GO TO CHAPELK AT CIM....OPEN UR EYES ,IF IT LOOKS AND SMELLS LIKE A DUCK THEN SHOOT IT!!! OR JUST LET IT DROWN IN A POOL WHILE ON PCP,MARIJUANA AND COKE........WTF!!!!!
ReplyDeleteReally? A hero in the community? Anyone who honestly believes that, probably has the same problems that Rodney King had. It's surprising to read the post made by Officer Ivory regarding this scumbag. Rodney King had a drug problem before he got his ass whopped and continued his addiction thereafter. Public record indicates that Rodney King had numerous arrests for soliciting prostitution and narcotic violations and that Officer Ivory, is the TRUTH. Maybe you should do your homework next time before defending a criminal. Next thing you'll say is that those dumb asses from the Condemned Motorcycle Club are Cool.
ReplyDeleteThank you well said. Some people cant see the truth if it slapped them in the face. Rodney King was a criminal, period. He got his ass brutally beaten by some dumb ass power hungry Cops and said "cant we all get along?" Because his attorney told him too. And as for the Sons of Anarchy or The Devils Ride, I will watch them on FX and Discovery thank you. :) Diemert
DeleteYour anger and slogans doesn't make up for the decades of oppression we have suffered at the hands of "progress". It's funny how whenever a proud man of color stands up to the status quo he or she always is turned into feeble minded dim wit. Wake up America we are here and not falling for it. Not every proud black man is a drug addict but if you listen only to the news you cant name one sober one. Even now on this site I've been told how corrupt and dirty I am just because I believe in my people by people who can't even put their name on their hate. Just as its always been
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DeleteTrue Roberts. That is 100% true. Diemert
Deleteyour people? If I was to say my people, which is white, and put my name on it I would get fired for being a raciest. But it's OK for blacks to say it...what a bunch of bullshit. Black pride, Mexican pride, Asian pride. White pride, your a raciest and fired. By the way Roberts has the biggest balls because he's expressing his opinion as a white guy. Blacks no big deal they are just proud black people that we must respect. The black correctional officers association will protect them...LOL
ReplyDeleteWOW...Too bad you werent around when the BGF was started you would've made Supreme Commander by now. "Oppression" and "Progression" are you freaking kidding me? Ivory take a stand for those people that actually fought the fight like Dr. Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Cesar Chavez and many others that our kids learn about at school. I think your "Oprression" is that you have been locked up in a tower for many years now and have totally lost your state of mind. Your right, Wake up America, If this is the mentality of one of your own can you imagine what inmates think about you. This is America, the home of the free and the home of the brave. Since it seems like you have so much anger, maybe you should retire and move to a country that houses others with your beliefs. I dont need to leave my name cause what I am telling you has nothing to do with Hate, it has to do with common sense and no color lines.
ReplyDelete@J ROBERTS although i don't agree with everything that was stated about
ReplyDeleterodnedy king facts are this was and still is an ongoing issue within the "ghetto" communities. It's not a secret that police brutality was vivrant (urban dictionary). My point is that their was some long term trauma suffered from this incident which may have increased his need for his drug use. Not saying it's right but that's the choice he made.
And to answer your question if it was a white man no one would care you must seem to forget about what not to long ago happened in Fullerton.
People do care no matter the color of the person skin. Quit trying to come on this site and belittle your fellow officers. Not all "black officers" are sympathetic to black inmates that you stated. Since your writing a tell all book name the names of the officers you p.o.s. You couldn't wait to get away from CIM but yet your constantly here on this site. Goes to show that you have not life. If so prove me wrong; MOVE ON WITH YOUR LIFE. If it's so great up in the bay create a site where your fellow officers could learn to love your progressive thoughts. I still got love for you after all is said and done. Don't try the tough talk and say put your name of your
comments, be a man. GTF out of here with that it's a choice given when you publish your comments.
Where's your name? Not man enough to put your name on it?
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Delete@ K. Ivory, I have also learned a few things in church. One being that each race is sacred in the sense that we are each a creation of the Creator.
ReplyDeleteI have also studied the example of Jesus Christ in regards to the implementation of love and truth. Well the majority of his life on earth consisted of love, he NEVER compromised the truth. Some of the Jews of those days that he came across, got a much bigger dose of truth than love. But as you know, with a complete willingness to disregard and bypass the Truth, they worked harder to see him executed and put Him on the cross.
Why? He told the whole truth as indicated in His story of the good Samaritan (a non-Jew), as well as MANY other truths.
Well I see one of the points that you are making,it should be be qualified with the whole truth of the matter in order for people to get a clearer perspective. As you have seen, that is NOT an easy thing to do, in a few words, on a running blog.
Well I am not of the same race of R.King, I could easily say the video was revealing. Would the officers on duty that day handled things the the same way if King was of another race? I could only come up with my own assumtions. But again, the truth is, if you ran from the law back in those days they were known to make you pay the price (any racisim involved only made it worse). Was it right to make a person pay the price like they did, No! there is a process in place for that already.
Whatever the case, this life is short and well I am of a certain race now, it will NOT be a factor come Judgement Day.
Thats one of the many reasons that I refuse to think like a racially charged and hate filled inmate, whatever the race.
Just my thoughts.
I smell a Battle Of The Badges brewing k. Ivory vs. J.Roberts as the main event...I got $20 on K. I.
ReplyDelete"Can We All Just Get Along??.."
ReplyDelete@ K. Ivory, I have also learned a few things in Church. One being that each race is sacred in the sense that we are each a creation of the Creator.
ReplyDeleteI have also studied the example of Jesus Christ in regards to the implementation of love and truth. Well the majority of his life on earth consisted of acts of love, he NEVER compromised the truth. Some of the Jews of those days that he came across, got a MUCH bigger dose of truth than love. But as you know, many completly disregard and bypassed the Truth, and worked even harder to see him on the cross. Why? He told the whole truth as indicated in the story of the good Samaritan (a non-Jew), as well as MANY other truths.
Well I see one of the points that you are making,it should be be qualified with the whole truth of the matter in order for people to get a clearer perspective. As you have seen, that is NOT an easy thing to do in a few words, on a running blog.
Well I am not of the same race of R.King, I could easily say the video was revealing. Would the officers on duty that day handled things the the same way if King was of another race? I could only come up with my own assumtions. The truth is that if you ran from the law back in those days they were known to make you pay the price (if racisim was involved it only made it worse). Was it right to make a person pay the price like they did, No! As there is a process in place for that already
Whatever the case, this life is short and well I am of a certain race now, it will NOT be a factor come Judgement Day.
Thats one of the many reasons that I refuse to think like a racially charged and hate filled inmate, whatever the race.
Just my thoughts.
And these are perfect examples of why our people need our own orginazation. The second you people are allowed to share your opinions about us under cover of annominty the truth comes out and its the deep south all over again. Thank you ivory for being a proud man of color. BCPOA
ReplyDeleteBull you might want to delete this thread before people dig holes to deep they can't get out of!! Big brother might start an investigation over some of these comments!
ReplyDeletethe secret is Never Ignore Growing Gnawing Emotional Responses once you let them out they always try to take over so KEEP THEM IN CHECK and where they belong so this kind of trash isnt spilled out in forms like this or in the hallways and yards of CIM. Bull I hope you post this because you got to know this kind of trash once it's let out of the bag is very hard to put back in and makes us all look like less. Thank you Bull
ReplyDeleteBlah Blah Blah stop the madness already there you go again a bunch of highly paid professionals turning this blog into an episode of Jerry Springer. For all of you cell/keyboard warriors there is only one race the human race. I wish more of you would have went to the military so you could learn a valuble lesson RESPECT. We are different men and women from various ethnicity's and cultures, with one thing in common our uniform. Once some of you yahoo's figure this out, the fights at CIM and on this blog will cease. If your dumb enough to waste your energy on political views keep it at your home, and use this blog for what is was made for information and staff safety. Remember there are POS in every race, and only one superior being.
ReplyDeleteRoberts is a joke!! He came up here and had been a tell all, talkin crap on cim, its staff, admin and everything else to anyone that will listen. He is a joke, and we are laughing at him, he is an ATM.. AutomaticTellingMachine... No one up is giving him credibility, only cuz who would transfer like (cuz he has NO TIME) and start talkung without knowing any of us. We were told aboit this site and see its true, he's just a basher.. Then to make a blanket statement, "all blacks" cmon bro, really? Im on 2w up here, B yard.. Ask around.. Roberts The Bull Gravano is no good. Im sure youll leave here and bash this place too, so do us all a favor, gain some weight, get some sun, trim your gay porn stache and have a tall glass of some shut the fk up!!
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DeleteThis whole post makes me sick. First we shouldn't even be wasting our time discussing Rodney King. However C.O. Ivory had to make one of the most disappointing comments I have heard in a while. To put the name Rodney King and attach the word "Hero" to it is mind numbing. See through the race factor already. Our community? What community? He was a criminal with a drug problem. Granted, he nor anyone else deserved to be beaten like Stacy Koon and the other lame ass LAPD officers did to him. I don't give two ratshits what race you are if you can't see Rodney King for what he was, you're a total and complete moron. Opinions are opinions, some are just dumber than others. Keep your heads up, watch your six. My name--------> Diemert :)
ReplyDeleteJust little FYI, Officer Culver actually pulled Rodney King out of the swimming pool that awful day. Officer Culver was jogging when he suddenly heard a loud commotion coming from a home (later identified as Rodney King's) as he was passing by. Officer Culver immediately responded to the home and knocked on the door as his past training as a Riverside Sheriff cadet kicked in. After several failed numerous attempts to make contact with someone, Officer Culver approached the back yard via an unsecured gate, and observed a woman in distress pointing towards the swimming pool. Officer Culver turned towards the pool and observed a shadowy figure in the pool motionless. He immediately removed his clothing and jumped into the freezing water risking his own life with the intent to help another human being in distress. Officer Culver managed to swim towards a safer area of the pool with the unknown body on his back. He then removed the motionless body from the water and placed him on a flat surface where he initiated first aid. No other information available.
ReplyDelete@ ihatedirtbags@1230am, this was the best laugh I have had in a while. This post even made me forget all the depressing and gloomy news of the options/layoff packet letters that were just mailed out last week. I just sit here and think how some people have bigger problems than commenting on Rodney King.
Delete^ I hear you brother, I'm in the same boat as you. Sometimes one needs to sit back and not stress about certain situations which one has no control over. Eventually everything will workout and the puzzle pieces will fall in place. Officer Culver is a great person, he's the type of person who will never forget where he comes from. I know that he's a little crazy and has many stories that are very hard to believe, but during times like these he is a perfect character to remember.
DeleteJust for the record, the above story is TRUE and accurate as possible as told by the man, the myth, the legend, Officer R. Culver.
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Sgt. Stacey Koons, Officer Lawrence Powell and Officer Ted Briceno are the real heroes of this story! We should all take some time to thank them for making the streets a little safer back then!! Just my 2cents!!
ReplyDeleteThis is a HERO: Not Rodney King!
ReplyDeleteSergeant Stacey Cornell Koon, the supervising officer at the arrest of Rodney King, wanted nothing so much as to be known as a good cop who did his job in a professional manner. Forty-one at the time of the King incident, Koon believed then--and continued to believe throughout his trials--that his actions may well have saved Rodney King's life. Looking back at March 3, 1991 many years later, Koon said, "I wouldn't change what happened one iota."
Koon was a well-respected fourteen-year veteran of the LAPD with a masters degree in criminology. In his years on the force, he earned over ninety commendations and just three reprimands. His courage was legendary. While working out of the tough South Central district, Koon once witnessed a black transvestite prostitute--who had been brought in for booking--fall over from an apparent heart attack. Even though AIDs was rampant in the area and the prostitute had symptomatic open mouth sores, Koon dropped to the floor and administered mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. (The prostitute did in fact have AIDS).
Fellow black officers considered Koon to be committed to racial equality. One black officer on the force said of him, "Stacey is a guy you can walk up to and he'll give you the shirt off his back." Koon once investigated a police brutality charge brought against a white officer by two black transients--a charge most officers might have let drop. He even angered many officers by ordering the accused officer to stand in a line-up for identification by the transients. (The officer was later found guilty of using excessive force.)
On the night of March 3, 1991, Koon ordered CHP officers to stand away. He said later he thought the CHP officers' use of drawn guns was "a lousy tactic." Instead, he twice tried tasing King. The ineffectiveness of the Taser convinced Koon that King was "dusted," or on the drug PCP. When the Taser and swarming King proved unsuccessful, Koon, according to one investigator, "looked around and saw a bunch of rookies--he tunneled in."
Koon may have won the case for the defense in the Simi Valley trial. Although Prosecutor Terry White thought Koon to be "an arrogant sonofabitch," he came across as a sincere witness who genuinely believed that the force used against King was managed and controlled. One of the most dramatic moments of the trial came when his attorney Daryll Mounger asked him what he was "thinking at the time you saw Melanie Singer approaching with a gun in her hand?" Koon fought back tears as he answered: "They show you a picture when you are in the Academy [taken] at the morgue, and it is four [highway patrol] officers in full uniform that are on a slab and they are dead, and it is the Newhall shooting."
At the federal trial, Koon revealed none of the emotions that came through in Simi Valley--and that might have sealed his fate. To some observers, he came across as cool or "cocky."
After his conviction in the federal trial, Koon served over two years in federal prison. Shortly before his parole in December of 1995, an unsuccessful attempt was made on his life.
There is a perfect example aid the white majority rewriting history and filling in false anecdotes as evidence to justify their model of "how things went down". Let me boil it down super great but color blind white man with a history of always helping any minority he runs across runs across a crazy drug fueled monster who is less than human and this ONE time he HAD to savagely beat this "animal " because he didn't want all the masses of police standing around to be killed. Ya ok and Malcolm x was a terrorist. Rev Jackson sleeps around. Rev sharpton is a liar. Rep. Jackson jr is a drug addict and I'm a dirty c/o and so on any time a proud colored man holds the spot light for more than he is allowed to he is deemed " uppity " and needs to be discredited.
ReplyDeletePlease get this guy some help, EAP, etc., and fast
ReplyDeleteIt is a damn shame that we are all talking or bashing one another when we have people with bigger problems!!!!!! LIKE LOSING ARE JOBS..... How aout lets try to give a shit about C/O's that worked hard to get this job instead of people that can not help us... Yes i feel the same way that are UNION is not working hard enough for peple with no time, but reardless we are still wearing GREEN and that is the only COLOR that matters. So lets try to make in difference insaving jobs instead of all this other bull shit!!!!!!! Sorry bull for my negative remarks but some of us will be jobless and possible homeless soon after...
ReplyDeleteFor the ones on the chopping block/staff lay offs.I was layed off in february because I didnt want to leave my family.Being a part time dad and being miserbly up north/Pelican bay is no life.Everyones circumstances are different and we make our choices in life.Its a ugly feeling of dismally low spirits not having a job.I was able to collect unemployement not much $$ but you adjust your lifestyle and expenses.I tell you nothing in life is far more satisfying than bonding with my kids.I was able to spend the whole summer and more with them.With my strong with Faith and a desire to suceed,I made a wise decision according to my life circimstances.I urge you,think twice about leaving your family.Money comes and,goes but having closeness to my kids is priceless.Now im at the very end of the process of getting hired for another law enforcement job with numerous opportunities.My brothers and sisters be safe.
ReplyDelete@10:29 ...great to know things are working out for you and you made the right decision for you and your family....cause in the end that is what matters..Best of luck in getting hired soon!!
ReplyDelete@ 10:29 AM, Good Luck to you and I hope you succeed in your next venture. You are right, Family comes first, I had an argument a while back on the phone with a certain Sgt.@ SAB because he was saying that this job comes first before my family ... can you believe that??..
ReplyDeleteSAB just do what you are paid to do and answer the phone.
ReplyDeleteSay first day or second day and then got you out..save all the other comments until you own your own business and sign the paychecks.
I'm not sure what's going on here on this blog but I would like everyone to know that I did not make any of these comments about Rodney King. Yesterday evening I landed in Atlanta where I was returning from a vacation in the Bahams, while on vacation I never went online and posted anything on this blog. I wish I knew who is claiming to be me and it would be great if Sgt Lopez would reply and condemn who has done this. However, that being said, I have a bigger problem, how in the world did a comment about Rodney King escalate to these vicious racist rants. Everyone of us has an opinion on many issues, and for some reason someone gave an opinion on how they felt about Rodney King. The responses however are horribe I cannot believe these are remarks of Professional Correctional Officers. Although its been 28 years since I attended the training academy in Galt, I have never strayed from this adage we are a team and as we know sometimes there will be issues that we may get angry with one another about but we are supposed to be better than the inmates. I only have one more year left in this department and I will move on into the sunset however, many of you still have years to go in this departement. How do you want to be remembered? This conversation started because of Rodney King, although we make fun of Rodney King, get beyond your racist attitudes, can we will all get along.
ReplyDeleteThe real K. Ivory Tower 5, second watch
I dont think there was ANYTHING racist about this thread at all. This is staff displaying their feelings about things. Is that illegal, no matter what race they are? Stop with the race card all the time.
ReplyDeleteThis Thread has run its course, many views and opinions. While I cant verify who posts under anonymous, your opinions have run its course.
ReplyDeleteTHIS TREAD IS DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!