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blackened eye.
"I was in pain," King said,
"but sometimes you get beat so
bad to where you don't feel it
no more."
King said he recalled no racial
slurs from the arresting officers,
but noted police "consider
themselves different humans
than we are. . . . They are one
family, and we are another family."
A probe by the district attorney's
Special Investigations Division
into possible police misconduct
during the arrest was
proceeding "briskly," Gibbons
said. She noted that a determination
of whether criminal
charges would be filed against
the officers could be made within
the week.
The FBI is also conducting an
independent investigation of
possible civil rights violations
by the police officers, who have
been. taken off field assignments
during the duration of
the inquiries.
According to the district attorney,
Los Angeles police believed
King had been driving
while under the influence of alcohol
or drugs and evaded Cali­
. fornia Highway Patrol officers
~~ during a pursuit at more than
115 mph.
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
· Rodney King shows .a bruise on his chest during a news conference at County
Jail. His wounds include many cuts, a battered face and a blackened eye.
In an interview Wednesday
on the "Today Show,''.._Bradley
said the officers in the video
were "absolutely out of control."