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newspaper, city and state.)<br />

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will probe<br />

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'LAPD b:. - . FBI<br />

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ltadenan<br />

==o;~~o~;;B Angeles<br />

WILL PROBE LAPD<br />

~:Fr~m staff ;ind::;Ire reports<br />

with their. batons. At one ··point; -one<br />

____________,.._---· officer kicked King. ·<br />

:·:. LOS· ANGELES - <strong>The</strong> .FBI and the . Kit?-g, who was treated at a ~ea~by<br />

•_District Attorney's Office began an in: hospital, was booked for. inves~1gat10n<br />

!--vestigation Tuesday into what 'appeared of a felony co~t of. evadmg pollee offito<br />

be a brutal nightstick beating of an cers. ·He remamed m c~stody Tues~ay<br />

Altadena motorist by Los Angeles po· at the County-USC Med1cal Center Jall<br />

. lice, an a~sault that was captured on ward on a. "no bail" hol~. _ · .<br />

v.ideotape by a nearby resident and de-<br />

'·&cribed as shocking by Los. Angeles , for the Los Ang.eles Police De-<br />

..Mayor Tom Bradley. · partment, said he had no infor-<br />

. "Tbis Y~" ~o~-ething we cannot and IIlation ~bout King's condition.<br />

Office: -Don !-'awrenc~,:..~P'i_>ke&m~:.<br />

'will not tolerate," Bradley said after King's brother, Ron, told televiewing<br />

the video sho~ing a group of i vision station KCAL Channel 9<br />

police <strong>officers</strong> clubbing and kicking 25· , that police had broken his brothyear-old<br />

Rodney Glenn King as he lay' er's leg.<br />

on the ground. "I am as shocked and "Why would they beat someoutraged<br />

as anyone."<br />

, one like that? <strong>The</strong>y beat. him and<br />

A copy of the videotape, shot by a~ beat him and beat him," he told<br />

Lake View Terrace man early Sunday, KCAL. . .<br />

. was turned over to. the Police Depart· Officials with both the Altament's<br />

Internal Affairs Division for an I dena and Pasadena chapters of<br />

•-<br />

the NAACP ·said they would in-<br />

,mvestigation of whether <strong>officers</strong> used ·vestigate the i.ilcident. ..:<br />

·excessive force, Deputy Police Chief "My blood's boiling," said<br />

·William Booth said.<br />

Altadena NAACP President<br />

~- FBI agents also entered the probe Tony Stewart. "It's t~;rrible to<br />

.,Tuesday to investigate possible· civil· think this kind of thing can hap­<br />

'"rights violations, FBI spokesman Fred pen in .America."<br />

Reagan said.<br />

<strong>The</strong> videotape drew outrage<br />

<strong>The</strong> incident started about 1 a.m. from black groups anij civil lib·<br />

; Sunday, when California Highway Pa- ertarians. .<br />

trol <strong>officers</strong> tried to stop a car traveling · "'<strong>The</strong> time has come to take a<br />

~·in excess of 100 mph near the intersec- very deep look at what the de­<br />

,. ·· ··· · , · · · partment does," said Ramona<br />

'tion of the Foothill (210) and Simi Val- Ripston, executive director of<br />

~ l,ey (118) freeways, said police Capt. the Los' Angeles chapter of the<br />

.·Thomas McBride, commander of the de· American Civil Liberties Union.<br />

•partment's Foothill Division. .<br />

, . At the request of··.CHP :<strong>officers</strong>, Los<br />

~'Mlgeles police joined the chase, and the<br />

"motorist was pulled over on Foothill<br />

~Boulevard in Lake View Terrace.<br />

: .·<strong>The</strong> videotape shows an apparently<br />

. handcuffed Kmg on the ground with<br />

. three <strong>officers</strong> striking him repeatedly<br />

SEARCflED<br />

INDEXED<br />

SERIALIZED<br />

fii&P. ·---I<br />

MAR 2 0 1991<br />

FBI - LOS AN_GE.LES<br />

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I"BI/OOJ

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