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THREE WEEKS AGO, RODNEY KING TESTIFIED COMpellingly about how Los Angeles police clubbed him in the head and shouted racial slurs during his notorious videotaped beating two years ago. This time it was a tough-talking Stacey Koon, one of four officers on trial for violating King's civil rights, who contended that King brought the beating on himself. Koon, the commanding officer on the scene, told jurors that King displayed threatening "hulk-like strength," appeared to be high on drugs and failed to heed police commands. "He made all the choices, all the wrong choices," said Koon. When...
Three of the men, Los Angeles police department officers Theodore Briseno, Timothy Wind and Laurence Powell, were charged with willfully using unreasonable force. A second count accuses Sergeant Stacey Koon, the supervising officer at the scene, of failing to prevent the assault. The trial date will be set at their arraignment hearing...
...officers, Laurence Powell, Theodore Briseno, Timothy Wind and Stacey Koon, made a Brief court appearance yesterday and were released on $5000 unsecured bail...
...attorneys also got jurors to believe that the prostrate King, not the skull-drumming officers, was "controlling the incident." He could have ended the beating, they contended, by simply adopting a compliant posture. Insisting on the stand that King repeatedly refused to lie facedown on the ground, Sergeant Stacey Koon contended that King was attempting to "either escape or attack my officers." Koon defended his part of the assault on King -- which included more than half a dozen blows to the head from Koon alone -- as "managed and controlled use of force...
...Instead his tormentors were facing charges. Last week a grand jury indicted Sergeant Stacey Koon, 40, and Officers Laurence M. Powell, 28, Timothy E. Wind, 30, and Theodore J. Briseno, 38, on charges of assault with a deadly weapon and excessive use of force "under the color of authority." They face possible prison sentences of four to seven years. When the grand jury goes back into session this week, it will continue to investigate the 11 other officers present during the beating. King's attorneys say he is preparing to file suit against the city of Los Angeles, which paid...