officers - The Black Vault

t-n-350 ({lev. 5·8·81)
•
(Indicate page, name of
newspaper, city and state.)
r-----------_:_
(Mount
__
Clipping
,;...:__:::._--..:.
in Space
___
Below)
:....._________----1 e: DAILY NEWS
081
Edition:MON • , MAR 2 5 , 19 91
FRONT SECTION, PAGE 12
Title:
FEDERAL PROBE TO LAST
WEEK
CharactefiVIL RIGHTS
or
Classification: 80-33 B
Submitting Office:
IDS ANGELES
Indexing:
SEARCHED
SERIAU~EO
INDEXEO....._ __ I
fli..E0----1
MAR 2 ' 1991
'Federal. probe tO last .. \
week
Gates criticizes FBI decision to question 9fficers at their homes
By Jim Tranquada
beating of motorist Rodney Glen and provided them with a state­
Daily News Staff Writer
King by Foothill officers on ment to read before answering
March 3.
questions saying they are coo-
FBI agents hope that question- FBI agents declined comment perating "under duress" in violaing
of all 240 officers in LAPD's on the specifics of the investiga- tion of their constitutional
Foothill Division about possible tion Sunday. rights.
civil rights abuses will take less Speaking to reporters after a All Foothill officers have been
than a week, Police Chief Daryl pro-police rally Sunday, Gates ordered by Gates to cooperate
Gates said Sunday. said he objected to the FBI's re- with the investigation and have
Saying he didn't know why . quest last Friday for all Foothill . been told they could lose their
FBI agents want to talk to every -officers' home addresses - but jobs if they do not, league offi­
.officer in the division, Gates crit- complied when the Justice De- cials said.
icized federal officials' insistence partment threatened to subpoena Gates denied issuing such an
that the officers be interviewed in them.
order, saying officers are required
their homes, rather than on the "(FBI Agent-in-Charge) Larry by existing policy to cooperate
job. · Lawler has been extremely coop- with other law enforcement agen-
"I. think there's a bureaucrat erative and is trying to make it as cies. However, he said he had no
somewhere that made that deci- -easy on the officers as possible," objection to the league's offer of
sion and I think it's bad deci- he said. legal counsel to union members.
sion," Gates said. "I object to it Gates said he was "not quite "The league has a responsibilibecause
I don't see any reason to certain why" all Foothill officers ty to protect its officers," he said.
subject the officers' families to all '!"ill be questioned. Four officers "You should not read something
of this." have been indicted in connection into that, that we are resisting or
The FBI's civil rights investiga- with the King beating. the league is resisting. They are
tion was started after a Lake The Los Angeles Police Protec- not. They are simply being ad­
View Terrace resident trying out tive League has advised officers vised of what their individual
a new video camera recorded the . th~y have a right,to an attorney _,rights are. ,,,
FBI -
LOS ANGELES J
FBI/DOJ