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Following are Wednesday's develop·
ments in the case involving 1he beat·
ing of Rodney Glen King by Los An·
geles police officers:
nessing the incident and taking
no action.
Commissioner Melanie Lomax
said Gates told the panel that the
department expects to conclude
its probe next week.·,
Bradley gave a mixed reaction
to Gates' proposals, saying they
do not change his mind that
. Gates' retirement is needed.
"I'm pleased that the chief at
least is looking at these kind of
things," Bradley said. "My only
concern is that it seems to me
that these are things that were
.called for a long time ago and
why they have not been done, I
don't know."
The mayQr said he still intends
to appoint his own independent
panel to loqk at the LAPD.
"His call for a committee that
he wants to form will not be in
conflict with the commission that
I will appoint and will probably
announce next week," Bradley
said.
Gates, during a nearly onehour
interview following his
:news conference, .said he hoped
;the program would begin to end
· ;the divisiveness that has occurred
'in the city.
! The chief also offered an opin­
·ion on why the beating has drawn
so much attention.
"I look at what's happening in
New York, which was much
more serious with a person dying
and 30 to 40 officers cheering on
the sidelines, I don't see the same
outcry," Gates said.
"I think there were two things
here. One, it was visual, and secondly,
it was the LAPD. I don't
think anyone in the world expected
it could happen with the Los
Angeles Police Department. I
think the shock was enormous,"
Gates said.
"The shocl