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<text id=93TT2472>
<title>
Feb. 08, 1993: The Trial This Time
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Feb. 08, 1993 Cyberpunk
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK
NATION, Page 17
The Trial This Time
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<body>
<p>U.S. prosecutors add some muscle to Rodney King's civil rights
case
</p>
<p> The last trial of four Los Angeles policemen unleashed the
worst riots in modern American history. The jury's acquittal of
all but one for the beating of black motorist Rodney King
seemed so at odds with a highly publicized home video that the
city exploded in protest. This time, as pretrial maneuvering
ended for the long-awaited civil rights version of the same
case, scheduled to begin this week, federal attorneys have
tightened their arguments. The prosecution will call civilian
eyewitnesses, who have told a grand jury that King did not
attack his tormentors, as well as an L.A.P.D. use-of-force
expert who testified that the kicks and blows to King were
violations of department policy. A transcript has surfaced
quoting police- and fire-department dispatchers as they
sarcastically imply that King was being punished because he led
the cops on a high-speed chase. Another difference: this time
U.S. District Judge John G. Davies has reversed an earlier
ruling that King's civil rights were violated only if
prosecutors prove that he was bloodied for racial reasons.
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</body>
</article>
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