officers - The Black Vault

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r\ ·upon healing the y~rdicts, Bri-! ~earit. Powell \Vas greeted .. by a ~- '--~·· .. · . . -. .
SE7no-who had testtfted that he similar crowd that hurled rocks at 1qwtted on one coupt of assault.WJth
~lieved his fe~!ow officers .were pim as he left. · ·· . · · , . a qeadly ~eapon. All except Po~ell .
· ,out of control. when they be~t. l The prosecutors, who had stared were acqwtted ~f assaul.~ unde~ the .
and stomped Km~-leaped to hts ~ilently at tP.eir table during the color of authonty; _the JUrY: deadfeet
and ~ugged hts att_orn~y. Pow- teading of the verdicts, hung their lhold~ pray~r
tre best job we could have done." ·VIgil at Martm Luther King Jr. s
I 'fhe Stat~ment WaS read by a r f.(>mb in J\tlanta to~ay. . . .
cpurt official after the jurors were : The Kmg b~atmg qwck!Y be­
Whisked ·away in a Ventura County came a v.:atershed ev~nt m ·Los_
Sheriff's Department bus to a near- I Angeles htstory, spawnmg an un­
J:i.Y Travelodge where -they had pre~edented movEr to refo~m the
~en isequestered during their de- Po~xce Dep;rrtment, h~stenmg th~
1\\Jerations. There, they were es- r~t~rement
of .o.ne chief B:nd. t~e
corted to pick up their bags, some hmn~ of ano~her-~d fo~cm? ~l!ts
.. Of which had masking tape placed ethmc~lly diver~e ctty mto prooe
~ags to conc~al their names and fotl!ld m~ospectton on the state of .
af,dresses. ~ · . ' 1 race relation~. . . . . , , :· . .
, TM four defendants wer~ a~- . ~- ·------ ·-·~-· ·-