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RETIREMENTS REPORTED IN WACO RAID INQUIRY
The Associated Press - Sunday, August 15, 1993
(Highlights of article)
WASHINGTON - The Treasury Department has interviewed
top federal firearms officials about allegations that
mistakes were made in the initial raid on the Branch
Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, and two officials
plan to retire, a spokesman said Saturday.
...
Thomas Hill, a bureau spokesman, said Ronald K. Noble,
assistant secretary of the treasury for law enforcement,
had met this week ATF Director Stephen Higgins and
several other officials.
The Washington Post reported Saturday that Noble told
officials the investigation had disclosed serious errors
of judgment on their part and that he had told some to
consider retirement and others to expect severe reprimands.
...
A final report on the raid and the 51-day siege that followed it
is expected next month.
(End of article)
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EARLIER REPRIMAND FOR LA OFFICER
The Associated Press - Monday, August 16, 1993
LOS ANGELES - A city police officer caught on videotape
beating motorist Rodney King repeatedly struck another
handcuffed man five months earlier, according to a report
published Sunday.
Officer Laurence Powell was given a severe reprimand by the
Los Angeles Police Department for "serious misconduct" for
the October 1990 beating of Danny Ramos, said the San Gabriel
Valley Newspapers in California. The reprimand was not delivered
until after the first King trial in July 1992.
...
Powell's supervisor at the time of the Ramos beating was Sgt.
Stacey Koon, who also was the supervisor during King's arrest in
March 1991, the report said.
...
Federal prosecutors wanted to use the Ramos beating as an
aggravating factor in the sentencing of the officers in the King
case. But U.S. District Court Judge John G. Davies said it
wasn't relevant and didn't admit it as evidence during the
federal trial, the report said.
...
Internal affairs officials condemned Powell's use of a flashlight
in the beating, calling it "disturbing," the report said.
"Use of a flashlight against a prone, handcuffed prisoner as
related in this instance is unquestionably an out-of-policy use
of force... contrary to academy instruction," the report said.
...
The report says that after the beating, Ramos' relatives
complained to the officers, and Koon swore at them, then crumpled
up a piece of paper on which he had taken down their names and
phone numbers, throwing it away.
Internal affairs officials found that Koon, as a supervisor,
failed to question the appropriateness of using the flashlight.
(End of article)