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. qaily News Staff Writer -- clearly showed what was going on
lv' r • · ~ ·• there; the fact that Rodney .King
:~·,Jurors who acquitted four LAPD was not being abused.
: Q.fficers in the March 1991 beating "Rodney King was directing the
: qf Rodney King - verdicts that action," the juror sai!i. ~
triggered violence in Los Angeles But Los Angeles Deputy District .
r- explained thei'r decisions anony- Attorney Terry White, who prosemously
and in divergent ways in cuted the case with I)eputy District
television interviews broadcast Attorney Alan Yochelson, ·.on
thursday. · - Thursday condemned what he-~
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rJriter':'iew. "And there was a r~ason- "They know their reasons are no~
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:aijle doubt" about the guilt of the reasonable when they look at that
. officers charged in the videotaped videotape," White said in an inter-
11bf.ating of ~ing in Lake View Ter- view. "It's kind· of like they are
('aCe · swallowing the defense position but '
~ .A~other juror' in an interview · they realize how silly they .are ~
broadcast on "The Today Show" sounding so they ~re tryi~_to come
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~: JURORS GIVE REASONS FOR
VOTING TO ACQUIT 4
LAPD OFFICERS
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