Washington ( CNN ) -- `` I 'm 6-feet , 3-inches tall and 230 pounds , just like Rodney King . Do I scare you ? '' Sen. Cory Booker , D-New Jersey , posted a photograph Wednesday of a column he wrote after the brutal 1992 beating of Rodney King , an African-American , and subsequent acquittal of the accused police officers , who were all white . In the newspaper essay , Booker -- one of two African-Americans currently serving in the Senate -- blends his own first-person experience and that of King into a stream-of-consciousness column analyzing American race relations . The tweet was in response to a disheartened tweet from a follower in response to the events surrounding Michael Brown 's death in Ferguson , Missouri . Booker responded by saying , `` Diana , I wrote this at 22 . I remember how angry I was . And yes it was more than that . It was pain/hurt . @ Diana_Denis , '' along with the attached image of a yellowed newspaper column . The column is rife with emotions that range from `` rage '' to `` sadness '' as he describes a recent memory of being racially profiled one evening as he was driving . Quickly , his experience escalates into one that many young black men in America are familiar with : five police cars surrounded him , six officers approached him with guns drawn and demanded to see his documents . Why was he pulled over , in his telling ? `` Oh , you fit the description of a car thief . '' Booker had just graduated from Stanford and was awarded the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship at the time of the incident . He goes on to liken himself to King 's physical stature , which is also fairly close to the 6-foot , 4-inch , nearly 300 pound frame of Brown , the unarmed black teenager shot and killed by white police officer Darren Wilson . `` Am I a threat ? Does your fear justify your actions ? Twelve people believed it did , '' Booker wrote . Similarly to recent events in Ferguson , the National Guard was called into Los Angeles to quell the riots in 1992 . `` If I were the powers that be , it would not have taken me three days to call the National Guard , '' young Booker writes . He finishes the piece , written with shaky hands , by saying , `` Dear God ... . help us to help ourselves before we become our own undoing . '' Booker is already known for his rapid-fire use of the social media site to address constituent concerns and trolls alike , and used the opportunity to discuss what he calls `` transformational criminal justice reform & drug policy reform , '' which he plans to lead with Sen. Rand Paul , R-Kentucky .
On Twitter , Sen. Cory Booker recalls a newspaper column he wrote reacting to Missouri riots . The senator wrote he was not unlike Booker . Rodney King is one of two American currently serving in the CNN .