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92-201<br />

August 5, 1992<br />

FOUR INDICTED BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT<br />

FOR CIYIL RIGHTS LAW viOLATIONS IN KING CASE<br />

LOS ANGELES - United States Attorney Lourdes G. Baird<br />

announced today that a federal grand jury returned a two-count<br />

indictment charging Stacey c. Keen, 41, Lawrence M. Powell, 29,<br />

Timothy E. Wind, 32, and <strong>The</strong>odore J. Briseno, 39,<br />

while acting<br />

under color of law with depriving Rodney Glen King of his<br />

federally protected civil rights.<br />

According to Ms. Baird, the indictment, which was unsealed<br />

by the u.s. Magistrate today, alleges that three of the<br />

defendants, Powell, Wind and Briseno~<br />

who at the time of the<br />

incident were on-duty <strong>officers</strong> of the Los Angeles Police<br />

Department, willfully and intentionally us~d<br />

unreasonable force,<br />

during their arrest of Rodney King on March 3, 1991.<br />

<strong>The</strong> conduct<br />

as described in the indictment is-a deprivation of a right<br />

provided _,bY the United States Constitution. <strong>The</strong> fourth<br />

defendant, Keen, then an on-duty sergeant witq the Los Angeles<br />

'<br />

Police Department, is charged in the second count of the<br />

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indictm~nt .. :"ith dep'ri ving Kiz:1g of a constitutionally- profected<br />

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right by ··willful·;typermi ttiiig and failing to take action to stop ··<br />

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the unlawful assault by the other defendants, who were under<br />

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Kodn • s ·supervision.<br />

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