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Police .feel.
afterShocks-of beatinJ
By Keith Stone
Daily News Staff Writer
A man ran from a ransacked
bungalow in South Central Los
Angeles late Saturday·- three
jweeks after the Rodney King
. beating - .but a Los Angeles
police officer was faster and
'soon had him under arrest.
· Sweating from the chase but
! unhurt, the man sat handcuffed
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=in a police cruiser, worry~:{
how the police would tr~a! hilX:
İ, "I thought they are gomg t~:.,
hit me on the head with theirN·
club. Why? Because I tried to
run," said Jose Nishikawa, 32,
arrested on suspicion of burgla­
:ry.
Sgt. Ted Maillet, the supervisor
at the scene who was escorting
a Daily News reporter and
:photographer on a ride-along,
Date:
DAILY NEWS
19 1
FRONT SECTION, PAGE 1
Edition: MON ' MAR :? 5 ' 9
Title: POLICE FEEL AFTERSHOCKS
OF BEATING
Character: CIVIL RIGHTS
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Classification: 8 0-3 3 B
Submitting Office:
lOS ANGELES
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.said the-King beating has damaged
the department's reputation.
But he also said the incident
might have eased relations with
the community.
; "In some cases, I think people
'have actually gone out of their
1way to be overly nice because
Jmaybe some people feel bad for
!us," said the 15-year veteran.
!"We'll get o~t of the hole, you
know."
During the March 3 beating
captured on a home video camera,
King suffered multiple injuries,
including 11 skull fractures,
at the hands of police in
LAPD's Foothill Division.
On Saturday night, some offi- ·.
cers of the Southeast Division
,felt the backlash of the beating
.that Police Chief Daryl 'Gate-··.
/ s called "an aberration."
, "We're taking a lot of abuse,"
said Sgt. Tom Walker, still visibly
upset from earlier that evening
when a drunk driver spit
onqim. .
"Since the King incident," he··.
said; "we are getting a lot of this
..;... you stop people and 'they
:·say, 'You going to kick (me)?
You better watch it. W. e got video
cameras.' "
, On a chalkboard at the sta­
~ tion someone wrote: ''The
ACLU is watching you."
Maillet is not looking over his
.. shoulder for video cameras.
"I tell officers: 'Hey, just do
your job like you would normally
and you have nothing to
worry about,' " said Maillet, .a
trim man with silver and black
hair who favors chewing tobac-
1 co.
Maillet said police are trained
I to use words first, increasing del
.grees of force later.
i "I ~aven't h~d a fight· ~ut
here.. m a long trme," he sard,
pulljhg out of the Southeast Di- ~ ,X
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