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man, he was leery of police. :
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; f~rent humans than we are. ,
are a fainily, a big family.
are another family," King
in a jailhouse interview be-
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:;,:Without the video of King's
1:1eating, TV network news prol'would
have become a national
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"It's a picture medium," said
Steve Friedman, executive pro-
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;·:-~LOS ANGELES - Civilians
who happen to be on the spot
with video cameras are proving
the undoing of some rogue offi-
1 llillrs, capturing them on video­
! ~pe skimming drug money or
ooating suspects.
~Videotapes have become the
~$is for law- I.;'1W1~PS
·suits seeking
. ijlmlons from
I , llolice dep~rtaccused
of harboring
·ove·rzealous
.officers.
: . George Hol-
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his new video Holliday
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I ·camera early
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gun and repeatedly club- ,1
}).ing Rodney King, a motorist
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: Stopped for a .traffic violation.
The tape made the news on all '
I ·the networks this week.
! >.King, who is black, said he
· tlidn't hear any racial slurs dur-
! J.ng the beating, and Rentzer said [
::race wouldn't be a major issue ·
·\in the case.
,· But King said that, as a black
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you have a fire and you have no
pictures of the fire and no one
got killed, you don't mention it. 1
If you have gr.eat pictures of
flames ·leaping out, you use it." ~
Cameras have been responsible
for the undoing of other offi·
cers.
Home video cameras captured
New York City police during a
bloody 1988 riot with demonstrators
in Tompkins Square Park .
Authorities said the videos
showed officers, some of them
with badges covered to ·keep
from being identified, apparently .)
using excessive force. ~
In another California case, tri- :
al is under way for two Long :
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Beach policemen charged in the
case of black activist Don Jack- ~
son, who was beaten during a .
traffic stop in 1989. :
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