Rodney King: 'Can We All Get Along?'
After the four police officers who beat Rodney King were acquitted in 1991, riots spread through Los Angeles. Yet King himself, the man who had faced the most injustice, plead for peace. "Can we all just get along?" he famously asked. King died today at the age of 47.

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