Rodney King’s daughter sickened by Tyre Nichols' beating at the hands of Memphis cops three decades after LAPD attack on her father
“It’s sickening. I don’t feel well. It’s not a good feeling. I don’t wish that upon anybody’s family,” Lora Dene King, 38, tells. “I don’t think anyone should go through something like that. I don’t see how people are okay, because I’m not.
I’m human, and if you’re human, you shouldn’t be okay with that video.” Lora was seven years old when her dad was struck with batons, kicked, and Tasered by a group of LAPD officers in a shameful show ofUnlike Nichols, King survived his attack. But he was never the same, Lora says. “Even though he didn’t physically die, a big part of him died that night. He suffered permanent brain damage,” she says. “He wasn’t okay. He never was after that day. I wasn’t okay, so I can only imagine what my dad felt.” Friday evening outside a theater in Inglewood, Calif., after joining community activists including Najee Ali to watch the video of Nichols’s beating. She was horrified that the clips released by Memphis Police paralleled many details of her father’s case, including the flippant manner adopted by the officers. In Nichols’s case, the officers were captured on bodycam video boasting about how they chased and beat the 29-year-old Black man. Some of them were laughing. Lora recalled how one of her father’s arresting officers, Laurence Powell, referred to her King’s beating as hitting “a home run.” “That man was begging for his life. He begged for his mother,” she said of Nichols. “That’s sick to me. That’s very sick. I don’t even know what to feel about that, that’s weird to me… [And] they were referencing as if was on drugs, or whatever the case may be. That doesn’t justify killing a man or beating him to death. It doesn’t justify it.”
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