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Bfadle)rf\ld~s~egrQlJp<br />

to ASSesS-Gates':fUtUfe<br />

•· Police: ·options to block chiefs: r~t~rn are studfed. ·...<br />

Mayor seeks to distance him~l(f~mit~.he dispute.--~: ·<br />

- .<br />

While -Mayor Tom Bradley on<br />

Saturday sought to distance him­<br />

' self from .the dispute :over the<br />

·future of Police Chief Daryl F.<br />

~Gates, the mayor's aides and advisers<br />

hastily regrouped to assess<br />

·Options for blocking the chief's<br />

return to his job.<br />

<strong>The</strong> mayor and his staff were<br />

·attempting to recover from a sting­<br />

~jng political defeat delivered by the<br />

··.City Council Friday when .it ignored<br />

Bradley's personal plea and<br />

voted to reinstate Gates. <strong>The</strong> council<br />

action would, in effect, reverse a<br />

decision by the Bradley-appointed<br />

Police Commission to place Gates<br />

.. on leave while it conducts a wideranging<br />

investigation prompted by<br />

·the police beating of Rodney G.<br />

King.<br />

In an interview in his City Hall<br />

office, Bradley· said Saturday that<br />

-he intends to ~tay out of the legal<br />

dispute over Gates' status when it<br />

··reaches Superior Court on Monday.<br />

· <strong>The</strong> mayor said he will take no<br />

·· further actions regarding the<br />

chief's tenure, leaving the Police<br />

• Commission to deal with the issue.<br />

"I don't know what's going to<br />

This article was reported and ·<br />

written by Times staff writers<br />

Glenn F. Bunting, Rich Connell<br />

and Jane Fritsch.<br />

· happen on Monday," Bradley said.<br />

"It has been suggested that somehow<br />

I influenced the commission to<br />

take its action . . . I am removed<br />

from this."<br />

Some city officials expressed<br />

skepticism about the mayor's assertion.<br />

"For Bradl_ey and his office to be<br />

saying they didn't have any influence<br />

with the commission is a<br />

punch of bull," said City Council<br />

President John Ferraro. "[<strong>The</strong><br />

mayor] put plenty of pressure on<br />

l•<br />

them' one way or another.;;<br />

<strong>The</strong> commission's action followed<br />

·a month ·of behind-thescenes<br />

maneuvering by Bradley<br />

and Deputy Mayor Mark Fabiani to<br />

oust Gates, sources have told <strong>The</strong><br />

· 'Times. :But Bradley deniea Saturday<br />

that he or anyone in his office<br />

has secretly plotted against Gates.<br />

"1 am not a ·devious -or evil<br />

person," said the mayor. "I never<br />

function in that way ... .'Ifsomebody<br />

believes ·me, fine. If they<br />

don't, they don't, so be it."<br />

__!3radley c~!~~ -~

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