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·Downtown Protest<br />

'Leader Provokes<br />

Crowd to Violence ,.<br />

r .<br />

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·•·· By TOMAS J. LEWIS .<br />

Managing Editor ..<br />

!,<br />

: LOS ANGELES .;.__ Motivated<br />

;by the still fresh jury .verdict in the<br />

Rodriey ·o. King .beating trial,<br />

Alan Wesley; :31, ·beseeched the<br />

growing crow~ of 250 angry protesters<br />

to vent their frustrations in<br />

-the streets.<br />

~. "F-- all the demonstrations!<br />

1 Let's get violent!" he yelled, his<br />

'-words aflame with the vehemence<br />

· bf a man bent on revenge ..<br />

' "' "Let's burn this mother .f-----<br />

;qown," he bellowed.<br />

~ Wesley's exhortations came a<br />

,little more thari three hours -after a<br />

·jury acquitted the four Los Angel­<br />

~s police <strong>officers</strong> accused of mul-<br />

~iple assault charges in the March<br />

3, 1991, .beating of King.<br />

• · Vent their anger<br />

t.. In ~ hastily called protest, the<br />

!demonstrators converged on<br />

· Parke.r Center, administrative<br />

, 'headquarters of the Los Angeles<br />

.Police Department, to vent their<br />

{-#nger over the verdicts.

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