LOS ANGELES (AP) ? 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. King's fianc� called 911 at 5:25 a.m. to report that she found him at the bottom of the swimming pool at their home in Rialto, Calif., police Lt. Dean Hardin said. Four Los Angeles police officers hit him more than 50 times with their batons, kicked him and shot him with stun guns. During the riots, a white truck driver named Reginald Denny was pulled by several black men from his cab and beaten almost to death. The police chief, Daryl Gates, came under intense criticism from city officials who said officers were slow to respond to the riots.
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