[Old Sarge]

Not Kent State. No blacks died at Kent State.

Rodney King, on the other hand....

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I'm mainly thinking of the election-year aspect.

Three dead in O-hi-o.
We can chaAaAaAange the WoOoOorld
Re-arAaAaAange the WoOoOorld

and all that.

Bill and Bernadine so want to relive the glory days of their yutes.

[Verginius Rufus]

Rodney King is still alive.

But 53 other people died in the rioting that would not have happened if he had not resisted arrest. (And if the beating had not been caught on tape and shown over and over on TV.)