Rodney King shot in San Bernardino

http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_D_web-king.668757.html

10:41 AM PST on Thursday, November 29, 2007

By PAUL LAROCCO
The Press-Enterprise

Rodney King was apparently shot and wounded on a San Bernardino street corner late Wednesday night before biking home to Rialto to report the incident, police said.

King, the 42-year-old man who gained national fame when his 1991 beating by Los Angeles police was caught on videotape, called Rialto police at 11:39 p.m. to report the shooting, said Sgt. Don Lewis.

He had been struck in the face and arm with a shotgun, Lewis said. King reported that the shooting occurred at 5th Street and Meridian Avenue in San Bernardino, just east of the Rialto city line.

After police arrived at King's Jackson Street home, King and others inside appeared intoxicated, Lewis said, and few were cooperative in providing information.

:(

Part of it might be his fault, part of it are certainly things that were out of his control, but whatever the circumstances, few would envy what he's seen in life.

seem to me to be part and parcel of growing up Black and poor with few opportunities.

(Which isn't to say there isn't such a thing as personal accountability, just that society seems to set Black men up to fail. :( )

Does he have an alibi?