Word: patrol
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...four women. Of the two non-whites, both women, one was Hispanic, one Filipino. Ranging in age from 38 to 65, the panel included a maintenance worker, a printer, a retired teacher and a retired real estate broker. Three of the jurors had worked as security guards or patrol officers in the U.S. military. Three others were members of the National Rifle Association. One was the brother of a retired L.A. police sergeant...
...there might be in winning over such a group, the prosecutors made some serious errors in building their case. In 29 days of testimony, the prosecution presented only six witnesses, including a passenger from King's speeding car and a husband-wife team of officers from the California Highway Patrol who were present at the beating. In contrast, the defense presented 49 witnesses, almost all of whom were police officers or experts on law enforcement who claimed that the defendants' conduct fell within L.A.P.D. guidelines. White and Yochelson also failed to call any of 30 civilian witnesses to the beating...
...case -- King has claimed that he was taunted throughout the beating with racial slurs -- the prosecution did little to bring home its significance to the jury. Prosecutor White did tell the court that just 20 minutes before the King beating, Officer Powell had sent a computer message to another patrol car saying an incident that evening involving a domestic dispute at the home of a black family was "right out of Gorillas in the Mist." That's "a racial statement," White pointed out. "You have to wonder what was his motive when he was beating Mr. King." But overall...
...case that they were surroundedbecause they were Black," said Stanford, who wasin one of the patrol cars on the scene. "Westopped them because they were disturbing thepeace...
...fact, as the students were clamoring for greater diversity and the police officers who patrol the dean's office every day said they were unaware of Clark's whereabouts, he was found hiding in the halls above his office. It's clear the dean is not facing up to his job, but retreating from...