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- <title>
- Mar. 22, 1993: Rodney King, Live
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 22, 1993 Can Animals Think
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 21
- NATION
- Rodney King, Live
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>The central figure in the L.A. police trial testifies for the
- prosecution
- </p>
- <p> A videotape is not flesh. It couldn't compare with Rodney
- King himself, taking the witness stand as federal prosecutors
- sought to convict four white police officers accused of depriving
- King of his civil rights in a 1991 beating. Calmly, politely,
- King testified that he led police on a chase because he feared a
- return to prison. He described being shocked by a police stun
- gun; he said police taunted him. Defense lawyers tried to rock
- King. One tried to pin him down on whether officers called him
- "killer" or "nigger." King was blurry on details, but Laurie
- Levenson, a law professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles,
- says, "When the jury went back into the jury room, they had a
- human being on their minds, not some blip on a TV screen."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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