RIALTO, California (AP) -- Rodney King, whose videotaped beating led to the deadly 1992 riots in Los Angeles, was hospitalized with a broken pelvis after he lost control of his sport utility vehicle while weaving through traffic at 100 mph and crashed into a house, police said.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/04/15/rodney.king.ap/index.html

cause he was black? maybe this was the reason he got beat up in the first place.. who knows.. ?