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Washington Post journalist Cannon believes that the four Los Angeles Police Department officers prosecuted in 1992 for beating black motorist Rodney King "were scapegoats for the Los Angeles riots" that followed the not-guilty verdicts in their first trial. Readers may recall the videotape of the King arrest, but Cannon reveals that a crucial portion?favorable to the officers?was deleted from the version shown on national television. The LAPD's reputation has been badly tarnished by the King case, the riots in which 54 died, and the Simpson trial (mentioned only briefly here), and Cannon faults the city's political, judicial, and police leadership. Although any analysis of the racial and ethnic conflicts confronting Los Angeles is bound to be controversial, this exhaustively detailed book, while repetitive at times, is an essential part of the debate. Recommended.?Gregor A. Preston, formerly with the Univ. of California Lib., Davis
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The Wall Street Journal, Christopher Caldwell
We will not see a more thorough treatment of the events that led from Rodney King's beating to the L.A. riots than Official Negligence--nor a braver one. Veteran Washington Post reporter Lou Cannon pits himself against a rock-solid consensus, showing that the King beating was neither racially motivated nor a clear-cut case of police brutality. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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THE LAST THING THE LEADERS OF LOS ANGELES EXPECTED IN THE early 1990s was that their city would become the scene of the nation's deadliest urban race riot since the Civil War. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
agenda juror, bystander officers, enhanced videotape, leg grabbers, resistant suspects, racially diverse jury, basic car plan, assistant watch commander, carotid hold, single stomp, baton blows, federal civil rights trial, federal jurors, aggravated mayhem, combative suspects, tactical alert, jury candidates, swarm technique, metal baton, baton use, other defense attorneys, electric stun gun, police commission, probationary officer, compelled statements Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Los Angeles, Rodney King, South Central, Simi Valley, African Americans, Christopher Commission, Southern California, Ventura County, Internal Affairs, Soon Ja Du, Latasha Harlins, Melanie Singer, Police Academy, Parker Center, Daryl Gates, Stacey Koon, Chief Gates, Mayor Bradley, Reginald Denny, Laurence Powell, Damian Williams, Foothill Station, Tom Bradley, Supreme Court, Orange County New!
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