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THE LOS ANGELES TIMES - March 29, 1991
LOS ANGELES TIMES
Atty. Gen. Agrees to Conduct
Robbery Investigation of King
By LESLIE BERGER
TIMES STAFF WRITER
The state attorney general's office has agreed to investigate
whether Rodney G. King committed an armed robbery 10 days
before his beating by police, officials said Thursday.
The Los Angeles Police Department, under fire for the nationally
televised beating of King, asked
the state to handle the case to
avoid a potential conflict of interest. The Feb. 21 robbery occurred
in Sun Valley in the Police Department's Foothill Division, the patrol
area in which King was arrested
March 3 for alleged speeding.
Officials said state agents would
start from scratch in checking
allegations that King committed
the robbery. A store clerk was shot
in the shoulder in the robbery at
L40 p.m. at Video All Stars, in the
8700 block of Glenoaks Boulevard.
"We are conducting the investigation because the LAPD says he is
a suspect, but as far as we're
concerned, we are starting at step
one," said Kati Corsaut, a state
spokeswoman. Special Agent Da
vid Genens, in charge of the office's
investigation bureau, said the matter "will be given top priority."
Los Angeles Police Cmdr. Rick
Dinse said the department stopped
its own investigation as soon as
King became a suspect. He and
other police officials have declined
to disclose how King, who was
convicted of robbery in 1989, was
connected to the Feb. 21 case.
King's attorney, Steven Lerman,
charged Thursday that the police
were conducting "a smear campaign ... to besmirch Mr. King's
credibility in the hopes of lowering
a jury award."
"They almost killed this guy and
now they're trying to smear his
reputation," Lerman said.
Dinse responded: "This is not a
smear campaign in any fashion. . . . Even if this were proven
to be true, it would still not change
anything that is in the process of
happening in the King incident."
Four LAPD officers have been
indicted for King's beating, and 17
other LAPD officers are under
investigation for their roles during
his arrest.
Object Description
| Title | Commission meetings: newspaper clippings, 1991-03-06 - 1991-04-10 |
| Description | Commission meetings: newspaper clippings, 1991 March 6 - April 10. PART OF A SERIES: Materials in the series fall into one of several categories related to the Independent Commission's work product: (1) Commission meeting materials, which include meeting agendas, work plans, memoranda, and articles about police misconduct that were circulated and reviewed during the Commission's internal meetings; (2) public correspondence, which includes citizen complaints against the LAPD in the form of written testimony, articles, and an audio cassette tape, as well as letters drafted by citizens in support of the LAPD; (3) summaries of interviews held with LAPD officers regarding Departmental procedures and relations; (4) public meeting materials, which include transcripts, supplementary documents, and witness statements that were reviewed at the Commission's public meetings; (5) press releases related to the formation and work product of the Commission; and (6) miscellaneous materials reviewed by the Commission during its study, including LAPD personnel and training manuals, a memorandum of understanding, and messages from the LAPD's Mobile Digital Terminal (MDT) system. |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California |
| Date issued | 1991-03-06/1991-03-08; 1991-03-12; 119-03-13; 1991-03-15; 1991-03-16; 1991-03-18/1991-03-22; 1991-03-26/1991-03-29; 1991-04-02/1991-04-10 |
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| Part of collection | Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department, 1991 |
| Series | Independent Commission File List |
| File | Commission meetings: newspaper clippings |
| Box and folder | box 21, folder 31 |
| Provenance | The collection was given to the University of Southern California on July 31, 1991. |
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| Title | Atty. Gen. agrees to conduct robbery investigation of King, 1991-03-29 |
| Description | Leslie Berger "Atty. Gen. agrees to conduct robbery investigation of King" Los Angeles Times (1991 March 29). |
| Creator | Berger, Leslie |
| Publisher (of the original version) | Los Angeles Times |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Date issued | 1991-03-29 |
| Type | texts |
| Format | 1 p. |
| Format (aat) | clippings (information artifacts) |
| Format (imt) | image/tiff |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Series | Independent Commission File List |
| File | Commission meetings: newspaper clippings |
| Box and folder | box 21, folder 31, item 32 |
| Physical access | Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@dots.usc.edu |
| Full text | THE LOS ANGELES TIMES - March 29, 1991 LOS ANGELES TIMES Atty. Gen. Agrees to Conduct Robbery Investigation of King By LESLIE BERGER TIMES STAFF WRITER The state attorney general's office has agreed to investigate whether Rodney G. King committed an armed robbery 10 days before his beating by police, officials said Thursday. The Los Angeles Police Department, under fire for the nationally televised beating of King, asked the state to handle the case to avoid a potential conflict of interest. The Feb. 21 robbery occurred in Sun Valley in the Police Department's Foothill Division, the patrol area in which King was arrested March 3 for alleged speeding. Officials said state agents would start from scratch in checking allegations that King committed the robbery. A store clerk was shot in the shoulder in the robbery at L40 p.m. at Video All Stars, in the 8700 block of Glenoaks Boulevard. "We are conducting the investigation because the LAPD says he is a suspect, but as far as we're concerned, we are starting at step one," said Kati Corsaut, a state spokeswoman. Special Agent Da vid Genens, in charge of the office's investigation bureau, said the matter "will be given top priority." Los Angeles Police Cmdr. Rick Dinse said the department stopped its own investigation as soon as King became a suspect. He and other police officials have declined to disclose how King, who was convicted of robbery in 1989, was connected to the Feb. 21 case. King's attorney, Steven Lerman, charged Thursday that the police were conducting "a smear campaign ... to besmirch Mr. King's credibility in the hopes of lowering a jury award." "They almost killed this guy and now they're trying to smear his reputation," Lerman said. Dinse responded: "This is not a smear campaign in any fashion. . . . Even if this were proven to be true, it would still not change anything that is in the process of happening in the King incident." Four LAPD officers have been indicted for King's beating, and 17 other LAPD officers are under investigation for their roles during his arrest. |
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