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<text id=93TT1204>
<title>
Mar. 22, 1993: Rodney King, Live
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Mar. 22, 1993 Can Animals Think
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
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THE WEEK, Page 21
NATION
Rodney King, Live
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<p>The central figure in the L.A. police trial testifies for the
prosecution
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<p> A videotape is not flesh. It couldn't compare with Rodney
King himself, taking the witness stand as federal prosecutors
sought to convict four white police officers accused of depriving
King of his civil rights in a 1991 beating. Calmly, politely,
King testified that he led police on a chase because he feared a
return to prison. He described being shocked by a police stun
gun; he said police taunted him. Defense lawyers tried to rock
King. One tried to pin him down on whether officers called him
"killer" or "nigger." King was blurry on details, but Laurie
Levenson, a law professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles,
says, "When the jury went back into the jury room, they had a
human being on their minds, not some blip on a TV screen."
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