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(Indicate page, name of ·<br />

newspaper, city and state.)<br />

(Mount Clipping in Space Below)<br />

DAILY NEWS<br />

Date: WED APRIL 3 , 1991<br />

Edition: Front Section, Page 1<br />

BRADLEY ASKS GATES TO<br />

1ltle: QUIT; CHIEF REFUSES<br />

IDS ANGELES<br />

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FBI LOS ANGELES •<br />

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~<br />

.·Mayor says<br />

·public good<br />

~!is at stake<br />

. By Patrick McGreevy<br />

~and John Polich<br />

f Daily News Staff Writers<br />

~ Mayor Tom Bradiey called on<br />

l Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl<br />

P-F. Gates to resign Tuesday, ac­<br />

~cusing him of hurting the LAPD<br />

• and dividing the city in the wake<br />

{.of the videotaped police beating<br />

['Df Rodney Kin·g.<br />

· Gates· immediately rejected the<br />

~mayor's demand, just as he reli-fused<br />

to step down in the face of<br />

:similar calls from civil rights and<br />

:community groups in the month<br />

isince the beating stirred a nationrat<br />

uproar.<br />

~ Jn a live televised address from<br />

,.City Hall, Bradley said he was re­<br />

Versy<br />

ove,r the King b,eating is<br />

, cleared up, .said for the first time<br />

'" r that<br />

·-<br />

he<br />

.<br />

would<br />

-<br />

quit<br />

....-.;.,.;....;;.;;,_;;===-.!:.:=<br />

if members of<br />

· tW.o .citizens panels examining the<br />

• b~!mg fmd he was .negligent in his<br />

~~ties. Offi~~als said Tuesday there<br />

·1s ,a poss1btJ1ty that the panels -<br />

one appointed by Bradley and another<br />

by Gates - will merge.<br />

:'If the blue-ribbon committee<br />

aft;er intensive examination, come~<br />

to ·the conclusion that I have been<br />

derelict somehow in my duty .then ·<br />

that would be the time that people·<br />

would say, Chief, maybe you ought<br />

to go,'' Gates said. "I'm not stupid.<br />

If that's what a commission of that<br />

charncter would determine, then I ·<br />

would say, hey, I must have failed<br />

somewhere, and I suppose that<br />

would be the time to ti:ltire." ·<br />

·<strong>The</strong> chief l,lad said previously<br />

that he would retire only after reforms<br />

were in place to ensure such<br />

a ·beating never is repeated. .<br />

. Bradley said he waited until<br />

Tuesday to ask the chief to resign<br />

. because he hoped Gates would see<br />

·that he bas become a divisive issue<br />

.and would remove. hiinse~f. In·<br />

FBI/OOJ

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