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By Therese Lee
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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. Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl F.
Gates assured about 2,000 vocal support-
-ers Sunday he has no intention of resigning
~d urged the media to stop broadcasting
a videotape of a police beating
that stunned the nation. ·
""Let's deal with this right at the outset,"
Gates told the crowd of officers and
. ·supporters at an outdoor Police Academy
rally .."I'm going to stay.
· ·'.'When I do decide to retire, it will be
because I can no longer take that flag
and present it .to a wife or husband or
little kids left behind because a mother
or father (police officer) was shot down
·by criminals. But I guarantee you it is
not now."
A resident of suburban Lake View Terrace
captured the March 3 police beating
pf Rodney G. King on videotape. The
~ tape was televised nationally, generating
outrage and prompting several investiga-
. tiona, including a national probe of police
brutality by the Justice Department.
Three police officers and a' sergeant face
felony assault charges. ·
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Date: THE OUTLOOK
Edition: MON , :tiAR 25 , 1991
FRONT SECTION, PAGE 1
Title: GATES TELLS SUPPORTERS
HE'LL STAY, URGES STATIONS
TO STOP AIRING TAPE
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were interrupted several times by chants
of "Gates Must Stay."
Demonstrators carried banners .and
signs in red, white and blue, reading
"Proud to be LAPD." One sign read,
"Bradley and the ACLU are conducting a·
witch hunt," referring to Mayor Tom
Bradley, who has suggested that Gates
resign, and the American Civil Liberties
Union, which has spearheaded the resignation
drive. ·
Civil rights activist ·Allred said Gates
shou).d not step down without due· cause.
"He deserves more than a lynch-mob
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Gates urged television stations to stop I
showing the videotape "again and again said Sunday.
.and again."
~ "The video will be forever etched in my
mind," he said, adding that the four officers
charged in the beating "do deserve a
fair hearing. They cannot have a fair trial
if the tape continues to be played."
Speakers at the rally included civil
rights attorney Gloria Allred and actor
Chad Everett. The chiefs own remarks
mentality that says ·Chief Gates is
guilty," she said .
Meanwhile, the FBI plans to question
all 240 officers at th~ police station where
the four officers charged in the vicious
beating are .based, a police spokesman
Gates on Friday ordered personnel ·at
the Foothill Division to cooperate with
the FBI, which is seeking to determine if
a pattern of civil rights abuses exists at
' the station, said Lt. Fred Nixon.
The FBI asked for names, home addresses
and telephone numbers of every
officer who works at Foothill Division in
its investigation of "the issue of excessive
-force," Nixon said.
Saying he ·didn't know why FBI agents
want to talk to every officer in the division,
Gates criticized federal officials' in­
~ sistence that the officers be interviewed
in their homes, rather than on the job.
"I think there's a bureaucrat some-
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-~~ink it'~-~- bad decision," Gates sai~ll~~J:._l