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Gates renews vow
to remain in office
· By Patrick McGreevy
and Tom Chorneau
j Daily News Staff Writers
As hundreds of LAPD employ­
'ees and other city workers
cheered embattled Police Chief
Daryl F. Gates on Monday, in­
. vestigators identified six more of­
; fleers who were present during
~.the March 3 beating of Rodney
r:'Gien King.
! The officers were identified in
fan affidavit police filed to obtain
1 a search warrant for the Foothill
~ Division police station in conl.nection
with a criminal investiga­
. tion into the beating of King by
: police officers after a traffic stop
· in Lake View Terrace.
, The officers identified in the
:warrant obtained Monday were
'present during the beating but
fdid not actually kick or hit King,
\the affidavit said. One of the offi­
.cers, Tim E. Blake, was named in
.a lawsuit that claims several
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Foothill officers severely beat 36
participants at a baptismal_party
in Arleta last year, accordmg to
Leon Gilbert, an attorney who
ftled the suit.
Felony assault and other
charges were filed last week
against three officers seen kicking
and beating King with nightsticks
on a home video recording and
against the supervising sergeant.
· According to an affidavit filed
in Municipal Court in support of
a search warrant filed by police
investigators, other officers identified
from the videotape as being
on the scene were Rolando Solano,
Danny Shry, Paul R. Gebhardt,
Robert J. Simpach and
Louis M. Turriaga.
The warrant said that. Turriaga
was identified as stepping on
King's legs while King was being
handcuffed.
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One of the officers named in
the affidavit on the Lake View
Terrace incident acknowledged.·
Monday he was at the scene of
the incident but said his attorney
has advised him not to talk about
it.
"I'd like to be able to say that
almost all of us arrived as it was
ending," said Simpach, a 17-year
department veteran. "No one's
happy that any of this happened."
Simpach said he has been taken
out of the field but has not
.been asked to talk to a grandj1!Q'
investigating the nicident. ·
The District Attorney's Office
is planning to present the grand.
jury with evidence involving
~ other police officers within the
next two weeks, said Sandi GibboJ;ls,
a spokeswoman for the
prosecutor's office. .
"Our investigation is continu­
. ing, and we do intend to pursue
this with the grand jury," Gib­
-~~ms said. "We'~e looking at
other officers who were at the
scene."
, Gibbons declined to say which
officers will be discussed with the
grand jury.
1\pe incident has prompted
outra:ge across the country and
·calls for Gates to resign, but on
Monday the police chief got a
hero's welcome from about 400
police and city employees as he
. arrived for work at Parker Cen-
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Gates again vowed to fight efforts
to remove him ~'with all ~y
strength."
. "The support for me has been
·overwhelming," Gates told re-,
porters. ·~To leave office now, I
• think I would be doing a grave
disservice to these fme people, it
• would tell them that there is
, something very wrong here,
-something in need of an overhaul,
and I don't believe that's
-·the case."
Organized by a Los Angeles
public relations firm, the pro­
Gates rally moved from the
.ground-floor entrance of the police
headquarters, to the elevators,
and fm~y to the six~h-floor
hallway leading to the chtef's of-
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Date: TUES. M...'Z\.R 19 1 1991
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Poiice officers, secretaries and
workers from across the street at
various other city departments
chanted "Gates must stay,'' wearing
yellow ribbons and displaying
signs.
Gates, eyes welling up, told the
crowd that the expression of support
was "humbling," and that he
·''was not going anYWhere."
. The event was organized by
Michael Sands, a public relations
consultant who said he did so at
1 the request of police officers and
department employees, whom be
declined to identifY.
Sands said it was his under­
: standing that the workers present
were on duty but using their
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· Gates said that although he
.realized a campaign to oust him
& was moving forward, he accepted
f Mayor Tom Bradley's word that .
· the Mayor's Office was not behind
it. He said that Bradley's apr
pointment of a longtime mem­
.ber of the American Civil Liberties
Union, Stanley Sheinbaum,
· to the police commission, was
"reasonable."
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