p.d. officers. for the first time since the beating, he went back to the scene to relive that hellish night. here now is that interview in the cnn documentary race and rage, the beating of rodney king. what do you think when you see it? stay alive. i knew that i had to survive this. like that, with my hands up. no threat. this was a lynching on video. we, the jury, in the above entitled action find the defendant i think the verdicts lit a match. the tinder was already in place, very dry. are you able to forgive those cops? have you let those demons go? did you hang onto the money or did you throw it away? can we can we all get along? can we get along? march 3rd, 1991, 25-year-old rodney king is thrust from obscurity to a national symbol of police brutality. the brutal beating that took place here along foothill boulevard in los angeles, california, would reverberate across the country. a city in flames. entire neighborhoods burned to the ground. now, two
are you able to forgive those cops? have you let those demons go? did you hang onto the money or did you throw it away? can we can we all get along? can we get along? march 3rd, 1991, 25-year-old rodney king is thrust from obscurity to a national symbol of police brutality. the brutal beating that took place here along foothill boulevard in los angeles, california, would reverberate across the country. a city in flames. entire neighborhoods burned to the ground. now, two decades later, what s it like to be the man whose beating seen around the world ignited one of the worst race riots in u.s. history? rodney king usually begins his day on a skateboard. the exercise, he says, keeps his muscles from stiffening. one side effect from all his injuries. skateboarding also brings him peace from the haunting past and demons he s battled the last 20 years. do you still have nightmares? yeah. i do. what s a nightmare? do you wake up? tossing and turning and sometime
found dead in his swimming pool this morning. king s fiancee said she heard a splash and found his body at the bottom of the pool. there were in preliminary signs of foul play. the acquittal of l.a. police officer seen beating king on videotape sparked days of riots and looting that left more than 50 people dead. we ll have a live report from king s home in suburban los angeles. election day in greece. results are in and now, we wait to see how dploebl markets will react tomorrow. the party got the the most votes today, the party that pushed for a european bailout and to stay in the you aeuro zone. it s complicated, but you need to know why this has a big impact on our economy in the u.s. it s also election day. election weekend in egypt. voters there went to the polls to pick the first president since the fall of hosni mubarak. polls are not closed. the vote counting is underway. expect results to be officially announced on thursday. jerry sandusky s defense will prese
it s only about three feet high. witnesses say she overcompensated and made a sharp right, crossing over three lanes of traffic going in the very same direction, hit a curb that went over a fence, only again about two to three feet high, and went sailing about 50 to 60 feet. control of the suv. it could have been, authorities say, any number of things. maybe something physically went wrong with her. perhaps there was a mechanical failure, a distraction of some kind. these are all the things that they ll be looking at as some of the possibilities, don. all right. susan candiotti in new york. susan, thank you very much. this stretch of road is no stranger to bad wrecks. back in 2006, six people were killed in almost the exact same spot. i spoke to steve casamo about the safety of this particular roadway. back in 2010, this bridge was one of several in new york state that were determined to be functionally y functionally inoperable. what that definition means, it doesn t mea