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Pasadena, California
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Edl~n: 3 I 21 I 91
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· Brutality ·victims
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mental trauma
By Susan Gill
·logical trauma," Burton said.
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· "Because one of the things about
being a crime victim is you can
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Rodney King may feel some go to the police and they will ·
now that four Los protect you or solve tne crime." :
police officers have been - '
i indicted for allegedly using ex- Allen, an Altadena resident
: cessive force .against him, but who was riding in the .back seat
1: the Altadena resident still has of King 1 S white Hyundai on
1~ some enormous obstacles to March 3; feared for .Qis life, acspecialists
say. cording to Burton.
i Psyc:P,ologists and attorneys Burton said police handcuffed
11 interviewed Wednesday said Allen and put him on the
1 King may be eX{ieriencing over- ground. Allen reported: that one
, whelming feelings of anger, cop.- officer "stomped" directly on his
i ~~frx:;r::~~~ion and· fear Qf hiS ~~1\ ~t'ft~f~.er otncer kicked
i "I would expeet that, like oth- Burton said Allen plans to file ,:
crime victims, he would b"e 1a 't · t th L An
quite depressed, have difficult a wsui agams e os ge- ,
-eatirig, sleeping and a problem les Police Department.
·in interacting with others," said Gloria Romero, assistant pro-'1
Susan Mandel, president of Pa- fessor of psychology at Cal State
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, cific Clinics, a mental-health L.A., likened police brutality to 1
in Pasadena,· rape. · _ ~
Frank Jameson, youth and "It is the khowledge that it is
psychological services. coordina- your word against somebody
tor for the Pasadena Police De- else's," she-said. "It is very diffipartment,
said King's experience cult." . ·
could be compared to ' 1 emotional Romero, a member of the Hisanarchy."
panic Advisory Council to the
"The victim is in a situation Los· Angeles Police Commission,
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in which he has no control, and said many victims of excessive
he is experiencing others who force by police do not report the
have lost control in emotional ift incident because they start quesphysical
levels;'' Jameson said. tioning themselves.
·John Burton a Pasadena attor- - ' 1 They ask: 'Did I deserve it?
ney who is representing 25-year- Maybe if I had just not moved so
old Bryant Allen one of the. pas- - much. Maybe if I didn't consume 1
'sengers in Kihg:s car the night so much alcohol,' " s~e said. of the beating, said King's .. case · "But thos~ questiOns _have I
is compounded by the fact ~at not~!ng to do wi!Jl .it," she ad~pOlice
officers were the :alleged ed~ W~ b,laple ~'lCb.qtS. fr .their
criminals. · · .own v1ctnmzat10n. I think w~
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"When a police officer does it, have to look a~~in at how we set
lays an extra l~yer of psycho- :UP the system. · .. _
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