“I look at it a total different way today. You know, I don’t hate them. If it hadn’t happened, a lot of things wouldn’t have changed. I don’t think we’d have a black president as soon as we had one … minorities getting in positions that would have taken more years to get into. There’s a positive thing that came out of a horrible situation.”

- Rodney King when asked if he hates the policemen who beat him.

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