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- <text id=93TT1138>
- <title>
- Mar. 08, 1993: Rodney King Redux
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 08, 1993 The Search for the Tower Bomber
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 17
- NATION
- Rodney King Redux
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>A jury impaneled, the second L.A. police trial gets under way
- </p>
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- <p> "I'm ready to get this started," Pronounced Laurence M. Powell,
- one of four Los Angeles police officers accused of violating
- the civil rights of black motorist Rodney G. King. "We have
- to get it started to get it over with." Seven months after they
- were indicted by a federal grand jury and two years after King's
- infamous videotaped beating, Powell and his co-defendants finally
- began their day in federal court.
- </p>
- <p> Opening statements by attorneys and the order of three dozen
- prosecution witnesses expected to testify over the next six
- to eight weeks suggest that the jurors will still be deciding
- the case on virtually the same information and arguments made
- by both sides in the first trial. The prosecution will contend
- that the officers violated police policy by hitting King in
- the head with batons and kicking him to make him comply with
- their commands. And the defense will continue to maintain that
- the officers' actions were "a managed and controlled use of
- force that followed L.A.P.D. policies, procedures and training."
- Despite new, enhanced versions of the videotape, the most eagerly
- awaited new source of evidence will be King himself, who did
- not testify in the state trial.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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