The policeman convicted and sentenced to 30 months behind bars for using excessive force against Rodney King in 1991 has had another brush with the law.
Stacey Koon, 67, was busted for a DUI on Tuesday after he hit a parked truck with his car, TMZ reported.
When police arrived at the scene, Koon’s BAC was nearly two times over the limit of 0.08 per cent.
The former police officer was reportedly cooperative with police during his arrest, and was released into the custody of family.
Koon was one of four officers tried and acquitted of using excessive force on taxi driver Rodney King on March 3, 1991.
Stacey Koon, who was sentenced to two and a half years jail over the 1991 police beating of taxi driver Rodney King, has had another brush with the law. Koon was charged with a DUI after hitting a parked truck while two times the limit (pictured left after being charged with excessive use of force in 1991)
He was acquitted, but tried a second time in 1993 for violating the driver’s civil rights and found guilty.
King, who was 25 at the time, was pulled over for speeding while he was on parole for a previous robbery conviction.
When he got out of the car, he was ordered to the ground at gunpoint, and resisted arrest.
King was tasered in the back and fell to his knees – at this point, a passerby began to film the interaction, creating what is thought of as the first ‘viral’ video.
Koon was acquitted of his excessive force charges, but was later found guilty of breaching King’s civil rights
Pictured: King three days after his interaction with police on March 3, 1991
The clip shows King surrounded by officers, who are seen using their batons to beat him with ‘power strokes’ – a forceful blow, which uses the entire weight of an officer’s body.
The young taxi driver received a total of 56 blows from the sticks and six kicks before he was restrained by his arms and legs and dragged to the side of the road, where an ambulance came to pick him up.
When he arrived at the hospital, King was diagnosed with ’11 skull fractures, permanent brain damage, broken (bones and teeth), kidney damage, emotional and physical trauma’, according to the lawsuit he later filed.
The jury’s decision to acquit the officers charged over their behaviour led to the 1992 Los Angeles riots, which killed 53 people.
Mr King, pictured, was 25 at the time of his arrest, and filed a lawsuit afterwards claiming the police left him with ’11 skull fractures, permanent brain damage, broken (bones and teeth), kidney damage, emotional and physical trauma’
The initial decision to acquit the four LAPD officers charged with excessive force resulted in a six day riot in LA in 1992