MERRILLVILLE â Seemingly anyone you could ask who knew Joe Bova agrees on what kind of person he was: an ordinary, peaceful man who loved his family, largely kept to himself and stayed out of trouble.
No one seems to have any idea why somebody would kill the 43-year-old labor official â especially in such a violent, extraordinary fashion.
Yet that s exactly what happened on the morning of Sept. 13, 1989.
About 6:04 a.m. that day, Bova walked out of his Merrillville home at 6686 Massachusetts St. and climbed into his 1974 Ford pickup truck. Bovaâs wife, Sharon, was in the home s kitchen at the same time.
On This Day: LAPD recorded beating Rodney King sparking riots
On March 3, 1991, home video captured a Los Angeles police beating of motorist Rodney King that triggered a national debate on police brutality. Acquittal of the LAPD officers in 1992 led to deadly riots during which King asked at a news conference, Can we all get along? King died at the age of 47 in 2012.
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A family rummages through a home burned during the 1992 riots in South Central Los Angeles. On March 3, 1991, home video captured a Los Angeles police beating of motorist Rodney King that triggered protests and a national debate on police brutality. File Photo by American Spirit/Shutterstock.com