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- Apr. 26, 1993: The Verdict's Aftermath
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Apr. 26, 1993 The Truth about Dinosaurs
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 8
- NATION
- The Verdict's Aftermath
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- <body>
- <p> Ex-L.A. police chief Daryl Gates said it made him "sad."
- Stacey Koon's lawyer said his client had been made a
- "sacrificial animal." Some community leaders felt that only
- four-out-of-four convictions could right the imbalance created
- when Rodney King was beaten bloody, and Jesse Jackson noted, "We
- have been given a pause, not a plan." But after the verdict in
- the second King trial was read early Saturday morning, most
- voices raised were ones of relief and approval. President
- Clinton stated that the King panel had "really tried to do
- justice." His Attorney General, Janet Reno, simplified: "Justice
- was done." And near the intersection of Florence and Normandie,
- the South Central epicenter of last year's riots, a man exulted.
- "We're going to barbecue," he said. "We're going to relax. We
- can enjoy ourselves now."
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