As a black man, you run from the cops. It's different now, but back when I was coming up, you run.

It's happening right now... it's just not on film, it's not being recorded.

Waking up sober is a good day. I love being able to wake up and do positive things, to go to the gym.

I know and value what it means to wake up and be alive and to share my story. I'm so blessed to be here and to be able to talk about it.

For a long time, sure, I was letting the pressure of being Rodney King get to me. It ain't easy. Even now, I walk into a place wondering, 'What people are thinking? Do they know who I am? What do they think about what happened? Do they blame me for the all those people who died?'

Obama, he wouldn't have been in office without what happened to me and a lot of black people before me. He would never have been in that situation, no doubt in my mind. He would get there eventually, but it would have been a lot longer. So I am glad for what I went through. It opened the doors for a lot of people.