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San Gabriel Valley Tribune
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By t_inda Deutsch
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LOS ANGELES - A ·police- A ?Iinute later, a message was
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man involved in the beating of received from a police car occu-.
aq unarmed black motorist told
another officer he hadn't "beat- pied by Officers Laurence Powell
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· e;n a~yone t~is bad in a long and Timothy Wind. The message
hme, accordmg to a transcript was simply: "Oops.". 1
released Monday.
Another unit responded
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"You just had a big-time use of "Oops what?"
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i force," Koon told a police dis- A minute later the response'
patcher after the beating of Rod- ca~e: "I haven't beaten anyone ~
ney G. King during a traffic stop this bad in a long time."
on March 3. · To that, the second unit said I'
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-At one point in tbe transcript,
the unit with which Powell and
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!· • A top police official investigat- "Oh, not again ... why for you Wipd were communicating gave :
mg the assault also said officers do· th!lt ... I thought you agreed ,!
their locatjon and said they were '
sent a computer message that t