RODNEY KING GETS 90 DAYS IN HIT-RUN.Byline: Anne Burke Daily News Staff Writer Rodney King Rodney Glen King (born April 9, 1965 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an African-American taxicab driver who was beaten by Los Angeles Police Department officers (Laurence Powell, Timothy Wind, Theodore Briseno and Sargent Stacey Koon) after being chased for speeding. was sentenced Wednesday to 90 days in jail for an incident stemming from a 1995 fight with his estranged es·trange tr.v. es·tranged, es·trang·ing, es·trang·es 1. To make hostile, unsympathetic, or indifferent; alienate. 2. To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations. wife. But the millionaire motorist won't spend any time behind bars right away. Alhambra Municipal Court Judge Michael Kanner ordered King to turn himself in at Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Jail on Sept. 23. But Kanner said the sentence will not take effect if defense attorney Edi M.O. Faal appeals, and the lawyer indicated Wednesday that he would, according to court sources. A jury last month convicted King, 31, of misdemeanor hit-and-run, but acquitted him of corporal injury to a spouse and assault with a deadly weapon Assault with a Deadly Weapon is the term used to describe the act of threatening to harm one or more people by using a weapon (usually a firearm). Here, assault must be differentiated from battery as they are often confused. Assault is threatening to use force. - his Ford Explorer. Crystal Waters King claimed she suffered arm and head injuries during a fight with her husband last year in Alhambra. According to reports, Crystal King got out of the Explorer, but reached back inside to grab her purse. King accelerated, sending his wife sprawling on the ground. King, who lives in Upland in San Bernardino County, denied spousal abuse allegations. Faal said Crystal King lodged the accusation to get money from her husband. King's videotaped beating by Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . officers and the ensuing state court acquittals triggered the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Since then, King won a multimillion-dollar settlement from the city of Los Angeles
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