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Date: FRI. , MAR 15 1
1991
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By Paul Pringle
COPLEY ~EWS SERVICE
A county grand jury indicted four officers
Thursday in the videotaped beating of motorist
lU>dney King.
· The indictments were sealed and specific allegations
and number of charges issued by the
• grand jury were not known. The indictments
were to be unsealed today.
The officers ordered to appear in court are Sgt.
Stacey Koon, 40; along with Officers Ted Briseno,
38; Laurence Powell, 28; and Timothy
Wind, 30, a rookie still on probation.
: Word of the federal inquiry - which may
examine an incident in Pacific Palisades - and
the indictments came as hundreds of angry civil.
rights activists gathered in downtown Los Angeles
to demand the ouster of Los Angeles Poll~
Chief Daryl Gates over the beating of King, who
is black, at the hands of white officers.
Prompted by the mounting national outrage
concerning the King beating, Attomey General
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Dick Thornburgh announced
in Washington,
D.C., that the Justice Department's
Civil Rights
Division will pore over
the estimated 15,000 police
brutality complaints
it received from across
. the country during the
past six years.
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The attorney general
said rejected and pending
complaints will be reviewed
not for the pur­
~e mfumg charges in
specific cases, but to
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'discem if any pattem of
misconduct is apparent" in the police departments.
. Typical of the oorilplaints, other federal officials
said, is one concerning the ejection last year
of 31 black ft?d ~&:t!n