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LOS AN:iEI..ES .
ORANGE-Rodney G. Ki~g. whose
beating by Los Angeles polic.e offiCers
created a national uproar, was arrested
· early Thursday in a restaurant parking 'lot
on suspicion of drunk driving, the Califor'­
nia Highway Patrol reported. · ·
Officers said they had followed another
traffic violatorjnto a restaurant parking lotabout
1:40 a.m. when they noticed a vehicle
back out of a parking space in an "erratic
AUG 2 5 1992
ll!ilnner'~ ]lefor~ skiqgjpg_ ~ a stop and
·hitting a cpncrete block, said Officer Angel
FBI - LOS ANGELES
Johnson, a CHP spokeswoman.
· The CliP officers stopped the vehicle,.
reeognil'led'the driver as King. and smelled·
alcohol on his breath, she said. He appar;· . _was ·insufficient. eVidence to bqok'
e1_1t1y was leaving the restaurant at _Chap~o: was arresteci!.irh~sdap saw'~ the ·h:him:·· ·-.~: ·. '·_: ···:·.~ ..... ~.- · ·
man Avenue ,and. ~~te College ~ulevard j·pol\ce pull into the parki1,1g lot, but
after meeting his wife and friends(a(!COrd-· had no idea what had occurre.d. · ..,
ing ti>'officers;' . n -~ .. . . .; . ,. tl • I • "They alf S~l\V. tlie: arrest;" said
King .failed field sobriety tests·.and was Michael. Jones, a ~;estaurant. em­
.booked into the Orang~ County Jail, ~here ployee who .lJ.a~>Ji~l!!~ about t~e ·
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he was released on his. own recogmzance arrest from .the:•nigl~t· er~w ..''They .~ ·:B~'i)russiili(Jno~miltl,,r.