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Some folks just can't take a hint. Critics have demanded the ouster of Los Angeles police chief Daryl Gates ever since the brutal beating of a black motorist by white L.A.P.D. officers last March was videotaped and aired repeatedly on national TV. When a commission headed by former Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher recommended new leadership for the force in early July, Gates said he had no intention of "running away." Later, when two members of the city council announced that Gates had agreed to retire by the end of this year, the chief suggested he might keep...
Finally, they should talk to Rodney King, the Los Angeles motorist who was beaten and shocked by police officers several weeks ago. Ask him if he thinks he would have been treated any differently if the inhuman brutality of that incident wasn't captured on videotape by a homeowner and broadcast around the nation...
...common sight in Los Angeles these days: a nimble motorist hopping out of a parked car that bears a DISABLED PERSON placard on the dashboard. The explanation: a proliferation of illegally obtained placards. To get state- issued cards that let motorists park in reserved spaces, drivers have bought them at flea markets for as much as $400 or taken over placards from deceased relatives who came by them honestly. The legitimately handicapped pay $6. Cops abandoned one solution: ticketing all parked cars that displayed the placards. The city is pondering other approaches, including improving the data base so that field...
...armed tribes, they have been at war for some time, though not in the better neighborhoods. They put in an appearance not long ago on a home videotape that a bystander made as the Los Angeles police were beating a motorist they had run to ground after a chase. Here was the lawlessness that the nightmare predicts: vivid, grainy, surreal...
...Plainfield, N.J., 50 people demonstrated outside police headquarters, charging that a policeman beat Uriah Hannah, a 14-year-old black. Last Sunday Hannah and his friends were playing with a remote-controlled toy car on a sidewalk near his home. A motorist stopped short at the spot where the boys were playing, and a police cruiser ran into the rear of his car. Hannah's parents, whose older son allegedly committed suicide in police custody last year, charged that the officer jumped from his car, accused the teenager of obstructing traffic and at one point tried to choke...