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· Presiderif says tape
Edition: FRI • 1 .tt.LAR 2 2 , 1991
Front Section, Page 1
Trt!e: PRESIDENT SAYS TAPE
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· .By Rick Orlov
. ton, D.C., before a meeting with
and John Rofe
Attorney General Dick Thorn~burgh
over the Justice Depart~.
·Daily News Staff Writers
ment's investigati9n intc,> police
(. . President Bush said Thursday brutality. ~ ·· . · · · ·
fthat the videotaped beating of "It was sickenH;1g to see the
r Rodney Glen King by Los An- . beating that was ,tendered and
f geles police "made me sick," ·· there's no way in my view to ex-
1.but refused to-say whether P~ plain that away," Bush said, in
!'lice Chief Daryl F. Gates should ·his first comment on the inci­
~.resign over the March 3 inci- ··dent. "It was qutrageous."
;dent. · In Los Angeles, Gov. Pete
~ . Gates has in many ways been Wilson expressed similar views,
1"an exemplary police chief . . . saying he was appalled at the
·;f;mtitled to a credib!e heari~g,". ,~.Y'icteotape showing Los Angeles
'Bush told reporters m Washmg- I police officers kicking ··and beating
King with nightsticks · following
a traffic stop in Lake
View Terrace. · ·
"There is no ·excuse for what
·we saw on the videotape," said
Wilson. "What we saw was un-,
justified crueliy and brutality and
there's no place for that." .
But Wilson said he would
stand by Gates because he didn't
think "it was leadership to join a
lynch mob." .
The governor said Gates, who·
campaigned actively for Bush
· and Wilson in their elections, has
built a police department that has.
a reputation as one. of the finest
in the nation. · . '
"There are some people trying
. to make him ·a scapegoat," Wil­
.son said.
But Mayor Tom Bradley ~
who has saio that Gates' retirement
would~id the "healil)g pr~
cess" - saia he didn't believe
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. the governor was aware of the
strong feelings in Lo)) Angeles
about the issue.
'~He's not privy to the same information
we are ,(privy to) in
Los Angeles," Bradley said.
"He's not hearing the kind of demands
'I'm hearing."
. Bradley has called for an in.:
vestigation of racism in the department
following disclosures
that some of the officers involved
in the .beating made racist comments
on the police communications
system before the beating.
King is black; and a police Sergeant
and t~ officers indicted
on fe~~ny charges in the beating
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