Rodney King Videographer Died of COVID

[winvens]

He was not vaccinated.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — George Holliday, the Los Angeles plumber who shot grainy video of four white police officers beating Black motorist Rodney King in 1991, has died of complications of COVID-19, a friend said Monday.

Holliday, 61, died Sunday at a Los Angeles hospital, where he had been for more than a month, according to Robert Wollenweber, a longtime friend and former coworker. Holliday was not vaccinated and was on a ventilator in recent days after contracting pneumonia, Wollenweber said.

Holliday was awakened by a traffic stop outside his San Fernando Valley home on the night of March 3, 1991. He went outside to film it with his new video camera, catching the Los Angeles officers punching, kicking and using a stun gun on King, even after he was on the ground.

A year later, Holliday’s out-of-focus footage — about 9 minutes worth — was a key piece of evidence at the four officers’ criminal trial for assault and excessive use of force.

When a jury acquitted all the officers on April 29, 1992, the city erupted in widespread violence. Hundreds of businesses were looted and destroyed over several days. Entire blocks of homes and stores went up in flames. More than 60 people died by shootings or other violence, mostly in South Los Angeles.

The uprising seemed to catch the rest of the nation by surprise, but longtime residents said tensions were building in South LA for years and the King verdict was just the tipping point.

On the third day of the riots, King went on TV to plead for calm, asking in a trembling voice, “Can we all get along?”

King sued Los Angeles over the beating and was awarded $3.8 million in 1994, but he told The Associated Press in 2012 that he lost most of that money to bad investments. King drowned in his backyard swimming pool on June 17, 2012, at age 47.

Holliday’s death was first reported by TMZ.com.

Holliday put the Sony camcorder he used to record the beating up for auction last July, with bidding starting at $225,000. It was unclear if it ever sold.

Holliday told the New York Times last year that he was still working as a plumber and never profited from the video.

He said he had purchased the camera about a month earlier and he grabbed it instinctively when he was awakened by noise outside his window.

“You know how it is when you have a new piece of technology,” he told the Times. “You film anything and everything.”

Holliday said in 2017 that he was working on a documentary about his role in the King case, but it was unclear if anything became of that project.
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[bill_1234]

see ya

[Dr Thrumpkinz]

Originally Posted by winvens

He was not vaccinated.

Well, holy effing shit Telethon!

What are you trying to say here?

That this dude who no one cares about, including you, actually passed on his opportunity to achieve a higher level of protection than natural immunity, and that he has now died?

Well, I hope you've enjoyed telling us about probably one of the last hyper important COVID deaths among the unvaccinated because it seems that all those rare to non existent variants you were so concerned about really only ever became variants in the first place to attack your weakened asses.

On behalf of myself and Earth, I thank you for drawing the problem (that you created) away from the people who weren't stupid enough to get sucked into your Cult.
Seriously, thank you.

[kellyhound]

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/f...nd/7892957002/

[Dr Thrumpkinz]

Originally Posted by kellyhound

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/f...nd/7892957002/

I love Israel now that it has become such a bag of disease. Their record keeping is immaculate too.

Scotland, Gibraltar, Malta, and most of the earliest, highest injection rate locations are now showing us what's actually happening.
The FDA Panel on Vaccine and Bio products just rejected use of boosters 16 to 2 in the US. I was really hoping Yanni would get a third dose in him, but I guess it's not worth all the harm they'd cause to the non-Yannis, so I'm fairly happy. The meeting is 9 hours long, but a couple hours of it are effing crazy.
I'll probably split it apart and post parts of it.

The jist of it though, is that when you take the absolute reduction of risk from COVID that they say the injections give, and compare them to the adverse reaction deaths in VAERS, the vaccines kill more people than it can save. And this is using all CDC, and government data compiled for the FDA, for this meeting--two or three days ago.

[winvens]

So no one but me remembers watching this and the ensuing riots on TV back in 1992?

[Dr Thrumpkinz]

Originally Posted by winvens

So no one but me remembers watching this and the ensuing riots on TV back in 1992?

I remember.

[Major_Tom]

Originally Posted by Dr Thrumpkinz

I remember...

I remember... a time of chaos... ruined dreams.. this wasted land. But most of all, I remember the Road Warrior. The man we called 'Max'.

[Moloko]

Originally Posted by winvens

So no one but me remembers watching this and the ensuing riots on TV back in 1992?

I was 12, but I remember. It made the news in the UK too.

Not NEARLY as entertaining as when *O.J. Simpson murdered his whore wife and her tennis coach who she'd been screwing though. The car chase (or maybe that should be car crawl given how slow he was driving?) was quality entertainment.

And we thank Black America for it.




*His son.