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· • Law enforcement:· Mayor says he's· ~outr~gecV'Th~~ ...
·department, FBJ and district attorney are .. investigati.J1~}~~
;By HECTOR TOBAR
.and LESLIE BERGER
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faks Division.also is invest!gathtg:;·
'The.hon;temade videq, shot early
Sunday morJ;ling .in Lake View
Terrace, depicts at 1eas't a dozen
·officers surrounding the man ajt:er
he left his ·car, kicking him and
A :bystander's videotape that
captures Los Angeles police. offi-
· ·cers repeatedly striking a prone, .inflicting -mor~ than· 40 blows Vljth
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Edition: WED • l-1AR 6 1 19 91
Front Section, Page 1
Titte·TAPE OF L.A. POLICE BEATIN
SUSPECT STIRS PUBLIC
FUROR
Character: CIVIL RIGHTS
Cla:ification: 80-33B; 44A-LA-11995
Submitting Office:
LOS ANGELES
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apparently defenseless man, nightsticks as he lay on the pavR- MAR 1 2 1991
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Mayor Tom Bradley declaring -apartment balcony, recordedt:..flo
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himself "shocked and outraged" by sound. · ''"';
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· ··~y distric~ attorney's office 'an- . TtiesdaybyCableNewsNetwof~. ·iprison, had been scheduled to.be-
··.: nounced that they had opened The violent 4Itages .produced'1m : gin>a construction job Moh_day, the .
. .lllvestigations into the officers' ac- immediate 'public outcry :and .tday after the beating. .
' tions, which followed a high-speed brought ~he Police Department»n-· ~ Sandi Gib't>ons, spokeswoman for
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~ car chase in the northeast ·san · ·:der intense criticism. 1 Disl Atty. Ira Reiner, said the
-~Fernando Valley. The Los Angeles : · .~t ·a. Los Angel~!3 PpJ}ce _CQI]l- !prosecutor's Special Investigations
.· Police Department's Internal Af.: mission meeting Tuesday after- i .J>iv;ision is investigating the ~ase ...
~" · · · noon, Police Chief Daryl F.