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Star-News
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Edl~n: 3/10/91
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• I , , ' Submitting Offic~t: Los Angeles
Rodney King:
nile: 300 PROTEST BEATING
OF RODNEY KING
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Jiy Janice Luder
Staff Writer
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A number of demands
·LOS ANGELES - An angry
crowd of about 3oo primarily will be made, and I ···
black protesters gathered out- think It's Important .~0
side the Los Angeles Police De- ~ DarrYl GateS. .
partment headquarters Saturday move forward With . ~ "I hope tt>day marks the begmfor
a round of speeches, marches them now, because O.f ning of the end for Gates," said
and shared stories of racial in-
dignities in support of Altadena the strong feelings
resident Rodney G Km' g
Clay Tee White, treasurer of the
Los Ang-eles chapter· of the
The treatment. of King, a that surround {the ~- NAACP. .
25-year-old unemployed con- beating) - -.... ~ The half-day protest was sponstruction
worker from Altadena, • .: 1 sored by the Altadena, Los Ange~
at the hands of Los Angeles po- Ralph Poole jles and San ·Fernando Valley
lice March 3 has sparked out- King's Villages tenants organization~ I branches of the NAACP and by
rage nationwide. . , .. • the Los Angeles a_nd Pasadena
In a home viEleotape filmed Participants in saturday's prQ- ' urban leagues. _' .
. fr~m a nearby apartment b~co- test said they are moving quic;~: · Tony Stewart, preside_nt of the
ny that has stunned the nation, ly to push for police reforms. Altadena ·NAACP, said more
-King is ~hown . handcuffed and while the outpouring of revW:- than thr~ bus loads of protestprone
'Yhile pollee office_rs be_at, sion for the incident is strong. . ers met m. Altadena early Satur-
~-club, kick and torture him With "A number of demands will be :day mornmg to travel together
an electric stun gun. The be!lting made, and I think it's importap.t , to the police .headquarters at
i-foll?weq a f~eeway pursmt by to move forward with'them now, !Parker Center m downtown Los
California Highway Patrol offi- because of the strong feelin~s Angeles.
·cers_. . , that surround (the beating),.,' "We Wfllt to _let. the country
: King sustamed a ~roken leg, ~asadena resident Ralph Po6!e know we ,r;e not gom~ to take It
broken .eye. socket, shm fracture, said. Poole is a in ember of the . anymore, Stewart said. .
damaged facial nerves, broken Black Males Forum and chair; · "The LAJ;>D has lost its percheek
and a dozen bUnr mark; . man of Pasade;na's King~ Vi);lag-· sprectivet.e It . feel~t. it's Jh. ob 1
isth~o
~fwnm the sttffi· gun · es Tenants Umon OrganiZation. P~ sec1,1 mmon 1~s. . ope lS
ron Friday the I>istr'ct Att The most vehement demand w~ll be the begmnmg of a
~ey's Office 'said it wJJ cons~t voiced among ~aturd~y's partici- gr:oundswell !Jf ~.peop~e of good
"-the Los Angeles Grand Jury in pants was the Immediate remov- will who -y.rill JOm With us to
..seeking an indictment against a1 of Los Angeles Police Chief fight that," Ste~art said.
the police respons 'ble ~ K' , . , Homemade Signs, many bear-
• . . I J.Or mg s -· ing color ·photographs of black
;injuries. .
men and women '}n mruttiry unl-'
form or black·-men With cuts and
'bruises; -revealed the anger and
frustration of the protesters.
r • "Wanted by ·LAPD - Minori­
~es, 12 Years and up, for Death,"::
:"read one sign. ''To Serve, Protect
and Break a Brother's Neck"
was painted on another. . .. .
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