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beginning. We have enough to
worry about with the gangs without
having to worry about the
police."
Outside police headquartet:s at
Parker Center in Los Angeles,
demonstrators chanted "Gates
must go" and carried signs that
read: "End Racist Police Violence,
Gates Must Go," "Down With Racist
Pigs" and "The War Comes
Home." ·
"Chief Gates has caused this kind
of unrest by his antiquated methods
of leadership," said Jose DeSosa
of Pacoima, state president of
theNAACP. ·
Meanwhile, in a nationally televised
interview broadcast Saturday,
Gov. Pete Wilson called the
'King beating "unrestrained brutality"
and said the officers involved
have been properly criminally
charged. . .
Wilson said on John McLaugh-
. lin's "One on One" program, which
also airs today, that there is no
place "in any police department
anywhere" for the kind of beating
he had witnessed on the · tape.
However, Wilson said, he does not
believe Gates should resign. · ·
The ·governor said he would be
willing to conduct an investigation
. into the incident if asked, but added
that he believes police administration
is "a local responsibility', and
should be conducted locally."
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The Revs. James V. Lyles, left, and Curry 'McKinney listen to Deputy
!'alice Chief Mark A. Kroeker duri~g meeting at Pacoima church.