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[1een asked to turn over "all tangible pieces of investigation a few days after King was beaten the
evidence" to the federal investigators, including the night of March 3, 1991. It said that even befo~e the
personnel records of all those involved, .and "even 'Verdicts were announced last week, it had done
uniforms and shoes worn that night."
. considerable wprk on the case and had interviewed
• ~ Police Lt. Patrick Conmay and.Sgt. Robert Ontiver- officers of the Foothill Division, which patrols Lak~
~s. two Foothill Division superv~sors, have been asked .Yiew Terrace, where the incident took place.
:to submit to FBI interrogations, the source said. :.;;.:The FBI already has obtained numerous LAPD
"A very broad and very comprehensive subpoena · dj?cuments about the incident, some voluntarily prof6r
LA,PD records dealing with ~he criminal and 'vided by the LAPD and others obtained by subpoena,
administrative investigations of the entire Rodney · accor_dipg to sources. ·
King incident" has been issued, the source also said. "I
can infer from all of this that not only is the focus on
the four defendants, but [on] all of the bystanders
.... So, that's going to scare a lot of cops."
·· A federal source said it should not be assumed that
.ihe bystander officers are targets of the investigation,
·nowever.
" ; Prosecuting the bystanders would enlarge and
complicate the case· and make 'it more difficult to
:present to a jury, said Washington attorney Daniel
Rinzel, who oversaw more than 200 brutality prosecutions
during the eight years he headed the criminal
section of the Justice Department's civil rights divi~
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