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(Apr. 19, 1993) The Other Videotape
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Apr. 19, 1993 Los Angeles
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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LOS ANGELES, Page 33
The Other Videotape
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<p> As the Rodney King case went to the jury last week, Los
Angeles residents were keeping a wary eye on another case
involving a videotaped beating: the assault on white truck driver
Reginald Denny by a group of black men at the outset of last
year's riot. Although the parallels between the two incidents are
largely superficial, many African Americans tend to equate them.
The case against the three men accused in the Denny assault has
become a symbol of the disparity between how whites and blacks
are treated by the criminal-justice sysMany Angelenos fear that a
volatile situation will be created if the four officers are
exonerated and the Denny defendants are found guilty. Thus a
ruling last week by Superior Court Judge John Ouderkirk
produced a collective, if temporary, sigh of relief. He
postponed the Denny trial until July, which will give the
defense time to bolster its claim that the prosecution is
racially motivated. The defense points to what it describes as
a decade-long pattern of discriminatory prosecutions. If the
judge agrees, the case will be dismissed. If it goes to trial,
as now seems likely, the videotape will be a key piece of
evidence.
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