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7rand jury indicted theni on:assault
1 and excessive forte charges.
J· · The officers were indicted nine
"I feel thaffour black men p~ 9~ys af~er the March 3, 1991, King
bly will be convicted (in the Denny beating. . · . ·- ·
case), and the white men (in the After a lengthy trial, they were
King case) were not/' she said. acquitted 'two weeks ago by a jury
"There's no question that the crim- -in Simi Valley that rejected the
inal justice system suffers from a prosecution's claim that the conracial
bias." · · duct depicted. on the amat~ur vide-
Four suspects in the Denny case otape was illegal. ' ..· . . ·:
we~e taken into custody Tuesday The jury's verdict-widely criti-'
~ 13 days after the peating of cized across the country- sparked·
-Denny, who was pulle~ from his three days of riots in Los Angeles
tractor-trailer rig at the corner of that included the attack on Denny.
Florence and Normandie avenues. . "(African-Americans) are going·
.:ft.pril 29 and was beaten and to say, 'Here we are looking at a.
roqbed. · . . · · · ·· · videotape the whole world has seen
~- ·-Jpree of the four suspects were and the jurorS have said 'That's not
·apprehended; ·the fourth turned what you see,' " said John Crump,
himself in. Authorities said they executive director of the .:National'
:were identified by a multi-agency Law Association, whose 15,000 ·
'1ask force that used enhanced vide- .; member~ are primarily African-.:
~otap~s and photographs taken at American ..· : · . .
•:.the scene. . . "Now they have .used the video-·
1n the King case, the four LAPD tape of the truck driver being beatofficers-
identified from a video- en up to arrest some individuals,"
ttape, radio calls an