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Other local police
chiefs disagree
I "It's Gates' resp6nsibility to
do something so that cowboy
subculture does not manifest it·
self," said -Hhilpott, who has
headed Los Angeles County's
sixth-largest police department
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it's· time to go
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PHILPOTT TELLS GATES
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By Danny Pollock SER1Ali4EQ fllED·----1
since July. "His retirement
Staff Writer
would send a message that the
' PASADENA- ----------------------- Police Chief Bruce cowboy (attitude) is not permit·
MAR 27 1991
Philpott on Thursday became the ted, and provide an opportunity
Southland's first law enforcement ex- ·for a new (chiet) to create a new
ecutive to call publicly for Daryl organizational climate."
FBI - LOS ANGELES I
Gates to retire as head of the Los Twenty-one police officers
Angeles Police Department as a re- were present at the scene of the
suit of the brutal beating of Altadena King beating in Lake View Ter·
:resident Rodney King.
race. Sgt. Stacey Koon and oftl-
1 · ·Ph;ilJ?ott_joined th.e ~owing chorus cers Ted B~iseno, Laurence Pow· Mahoney -said he could not
iof ClVll nghts act1v1sts and politi- ell and Timo~hy Wind, all .of 1condone the treatment of King.
c1ans who !lave called for Gate~ to ~hom are white, have been m- 1 But he said he believes the most
steJ? down smce the March 3 beatmg, ·dieted on felony assault charges .. culpable person was the sergeant
. which has sparked c~nde~nation of Los Angeles Mayor Tom Brad· 1 in charge at the scene .
the LAPD and a natwnw1de debate ley has said the chi':fs .. retire- 1 ; "There was a breakdown in
on police brutality;
ment would give. the c1ty an