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What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.

Rodney King

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Rodney King
Age: 47 †
Born: 1965
Born: April 2
Died: 2012
Died: June 17
Activist
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Celebrity
Sacramento
California
Rodney Glen King
Addiction
Learned
Arrest
Arrested

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