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- <title>
- Apr. 19, 1993: The Other Videotape
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Apr. 19, 1993 Los Angeles
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- LOS ANGELES, Page 33
- The Other Videotape
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- <body>
- <p> As the Rodney King case went to the jury last week, Los
- Angeles residents were keeping a wary eye on another case
- involving a videotaped beating: the assault on white truck driver
- Reginald Denny by a group of black men at the outset of last
- year's riot. Although the parallels between the two incidents are
- largely superficial, many African Americans tend to equate them.
- The case against the three men accused in the Denny assault has
- become a symbol of the disparity between how whites and blacks
- are treated by the criminal-justice sysMany Angelenos fear that a
- volatile situation will be created if the four officers are
- exonerated and the Denny defendants are found guilty. Thus a
- ruling last week by Superior Court Judge John Ouderkirk
- produced a collective, if temporary, sigh of relief. He
- postponed the Denny trial until July, which will give the
- defense time to bolster its claim that the prosecution is
- racially motivated. The defense points to what it describes as
- a decade-long pattern of discriminatory prosecutions. If the
- judge agrees, the case will be dismissed. If it goes to trial,
- as now seems likely, the videotape will be a key piece of
- evidence.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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