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...guidelines and that there were no "head shots," the first prosecution answered with a career desk officer. This time Duke was rebutted by witnesses with street wisdom: the police academy's trainer in the use of force, Sergeant Mark Conta, and a California Highway Patrol member who saw King beaten, Melanie Singer. Conta said, "We never teach to break bones. I see excessive force here. The picture I see is that of a beaten man who is not combative or aggressive." He faulted each defendant: Koon for failing to intervene, Wind for six "brutal kicks," Briseno for stomping on King...
...Hispanic musicians who were not called at the first trial said King never attacked police and seemed to submit before being beaten. Dorothy Gibson, a black woman who lives across the street from the beating site, said, "He didn't do anything. He was just dodging blows...
...health threats. The U.S. is the most violent nation in the industrialized world. Homicide is the second most frequent cause of death among Americans between the ages of 15 and 24 (after accidents) and the most common among young black men and women. More than 2 million people are beaten, knifed, shot or otherwise assaulted each year, 23,000 of them fatally. No other industrialized nation comes close: Scotland, which ranked second in homicides, has less than one-fourth the U.S. rate...
Stand-up comics have gotten rich with routines about the MIT football team. ("Sir? That's actually the 20-yard line segment...") Its squash team hasn't beaten Harvard in 50 years. And its crew teams aren't much better...
...think they've beaten us in recent memory," said sophomore Roger Ogden, who rows on the varsity boat. "But we still took it very seriously...