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“After the Rodney King beating, there would be no more “both sides “at the Los Angeles Times about Darrell Gates and the LAPD. It was impossible to see the video. The writers address of the paper or no longer comfortable, ignoring or normalizing such beatings in the name of public safety.” Certainly have retracted from that today. Why?

David Johnston singled out by Gayes at a public meeting, car burglarized and notes stolen

Mentions KPFK, KCRW’s Which Way LA?, KABC’s British host Michael Jackson and Rush Limbaugh as radio influences - which POC radio was influencing LA?

“The challenge for Tom Bradley and his allies was just sustaining the outrage triggered by the Rodney King beating long enough to motivate The otherwise Raquel citrin council members to support meaningful change in the police department.” How does the square with the current media landscape, and what the Los Angeles Times has become?

Gates sent a letter asking for leniency in sentencing michael miliken

Gates shifted his position on the Rodney King beating from “aberration” to “instead embrace the idea that Rodney King had deserved his beating.”

Writes that the Rodney King beating was not regarded as out of the ordinary until the tape. Today, tapes have become commonplace and the behavior is normalized

Christopher commission did not include community activists at christopher’s direction

Tom yorty never publicly conceded to Tom Bradley

“Black officers …internalize Daryl Gates value system”

“In the 1970s, the ACLU sued the LAPD on behalf of 23 organizations and 102 individuals in a lawsuit that alleged illegal spying on the police department’s political enemies. The lead plaintiff was the coalition against police abuse his leader, Michael Zinzun was one of the most outspoken critics of the department.”

When Yaroslavsky asked the cost of undercover po’s, a deputy responded if he replied and an undercover ended up dead city councilmembers would become murder suspects

Daryl gates proposed concentration camp in the Mojave desert

“In 1988 in south-central Los Angeles, unemployment among African-Americans between the ages of 16 and 24 was an astonishing 45% during it. When the unemployment rate in Los Angeles County as a hole was less than 5%. 1990 the annual per capita income and central forced citizens of all ages $7600 which was 52.6% lower than the average in Los Angeles County at the time”

First use of battering ram was done on a house given in a bad tip; the knocked down the door to find two mothers and their young sons, one arrested to save face

Raphael J. Sonenshein: “The LAPD came to represent a sort of government in exile for conservative Los Angeles”

Was pinning the beating and the culture arising from it solely on Gates a mistake?

“Yet the primary significance of the video in Los Angeles when it was first broadcast was not the beating itself. It was the culmination of a decade, long battle between Daryl Gates and his allies and those like Maxine Waters and the ACLU who blamed the chief for the culture and the policies that led to the beating and many others like it that had not been captured on camera.”