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J0KLF. LUGAVKRE / ,Los Angeles Times
Jose De Sosa, president of the San Fernando Valley branch"of
NAACP, addresses members of the Christopher Commission.
COMMISSION: Woo Heard
Continued from Al
iopher Commission after its chairman, Warren Christopher, the
panel met Monday less than half a
mile from the site where King was
beaten March 3 by officers from
the Foothill Division.
• The commission heard testimony
from witnesses ranging from Woo
to the president of an organization
supporting Gates, from an National
Assn- for the Advancement of
'Colored People official to a Los
Angeles police officer.
In addition, more than a dozen
citizens testifying as individuals or
as members of neighborhood
groups recited incidents of alleged
police misconduct.
Armando Vasquez, who heads a
Sepulveda neighborhood group,
told the panel he has started wearing a suit all the time when walking down Sepulveda Boulevard because "you can believe the police
will stop you."
Peggy Rowe Estrada, president
of Citizens in Support of the Chief
of Police, spoke in defense of Gates,
prompting boos from the audience.
Christopher admonished the
crowd, saying it was unfair to treat
Rowe in such a manner. She then
completed her statement, which
called for more team policing with
an emphasis on providing community service.
Officer Janine Bouey of the Afri -
can American Peace Officers Assn.
was the first police officer to appear during the panel's public sessions. She told the commission that
,she had not heard "any member of
the department deny that racism
exists in the department," adding
that all she had heard were "rationalizations", attributing the department's racism to attitudes pervasive in society.
Bouey showed the commissioners an enlarged photocopy of a Ku
Klux Klan business card she said
had been placed on the windshield
of her car in a lot to which only
officers had access when she was
assigned to the Foothill Division in
1989. She testified that she had
complained about the card, but the
incident was not investigated until
last month when she discussed it in
a newspaper interview.
San Fernando Valley NAACP
President Jose de Sosa said he was
confronted in 1988 by Officer
Theodore Briseno, one of the four
officers charged in the King beat- ,
ing, as he photographed other officers as they questioned four
youths. Briseno ordered him to
stop taking pictures, De Sosa said.
He said he filed a written complaint at the Foothill Division
about Briseno's "arrogance" and
"general rudeness," but never received a response.
De Sosa said police beatings take
place in the northeast San Fernando Valley "all the time," and the
audience shouted: "Every day! Every day!"
Formally known as the Independent Commission on the Los
Angeles Police Department, the
panel was formed April 1 by Mayor
Tom Bradley to conduct a sweeping review of the department.
Object Description
| Title | Correspondence: complaints against LAPD, 1978-1991 |
| Description | Newspaper clippings (Los Angeles Times, L.A. Weekly, Los Angeles Daily News, New York Times, Sentinel) and magazine articles (U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek) documenting Los Angeles Police Department misconduct under Chief Daryl F. Gates, 1978-1991, compiled by Irving Kessler and Lynn F. Kessler. Includes: Introduction, Contents, Excessive force, Rodney King, Mexican nationality, Civil rights, Property, Silence, Discrimination, Accountability, Gates intolerance, Recommendations. 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. |
| Coverage date | 1978/1991 |
| Creator |
Kessler, Irving, compiler Kessler, Lynn F., compiler |
| Publisher (of the original version) | Los Angeles Times; L.A. Weekly; U.S. News & World Report; Los Angeles Daily News; New York Times; Newsweek; Sentinel |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California, USA; Washington, DC, USA; New York, New York, USA |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California |
| Date created | 1991 |
| Date issued | 1978/1991 |
| Type |
texts images |
| Format | 368 p. |
| Format (aat) |
clippings (information artifacts) articles summaries |
| Format (imt) | application/pdf |
| Language | English |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Part of collection | Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department, 1991 |
| Series | Independent Commission File List |
| File | Complaints, suggestions, and support |
| Box and folder | box 23, folders 7-9 |
| Provenance | The collection was given to the University of Southern California on July 31, 1991. |
| Rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained. |
| Physical access | Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@dots.usc.edu |
| Repository name | USC Libraries Special Collections |
| Repository address | Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 |
| Repository email | specol@dots.usc.edu |
| Filename | indep-box23-07_09 |
Description
| Title | Correspondence: complaints against LAPD, 1978-1991, p. 365 |
| Format (imt) | image/tiff |
| Physical access | Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@dots.usc.edu |
| Full text | J0KLF. LUGAVKRE / ,Los Angeles Times Jose De Sosa, president of the San Fernando Valley branch"of NAACP, addresses members of the Christopher Commission. COMMISSION: Woo Heard Continued from Al iopher Commission after its chairman, Warren Christopher, the panel met Monday less than half a mile from the site where King was beaten March 3 by officers from the Foothill Division. • The commission heard testimony from witnesses ranging from Woo to the president of an organization supporting Gates, from an National Assn- for the Advancement of 'Colored People official to a Los Angeles police officer. In addition, more than a dozen citizens testifying as individuals or as members of neighborhood groups recited incidents of alleged police misconduct. Armando Vasquez, who heads a Sepulveda neighborhood group, told the panel he has started wearing a suit all the time when walking down Sepulveda Boulevard because "you can believe the police will stop you." Peggy Rowe Estrada, president of Citizens in Support of the Chief of Police, spoke in defense of Gates, prompting boos from the audience. Christopher admonished the crowd, saying it was unfair to treat Rowe in such a manner. She then completed her statement, which called for more team policing with an emphasis on providing community service. Officer Janine Bouey of the Afri - can American Peace Officers Assn. was the first police officer to appear during the panel's public sessions. She told the commission that ,she had not heard "any member of the department deny that racism exists in the department," adding that all she had heard were "rationalizations", attributing the department's racism to attitudes pervasive in society. Bouey showed the commissioners an enlarged photocopy of a Ku Klux Klan business card she said had been placed on the windshield of her car in a lot to which only officers had access when she was assigned to the Foothill Division in 1989. She testified that she had complained about the card, but the incident was not investigated until last month when she discussed it in a newspaper interview. San Fernando Valley NAACP President Jose de Sosa said he was confronted in 1988 by Officer Theodore Briseno, one of the four officers charged in the King beat- , ing, as he photographed other officers as they questioned four youths. Briseno ordered him to stop taking pictures, De Sosa said. He said he filed a written complaint at the Foothill Division about Briseno's "arrogance" and "general rudeness," but never received a response. De Sosa said police beatings take place in the northeast San Fernando Valley "all the time," and the audience shouted: "Every day! Every day!" Formally known as the Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department, the panel was formed April 1 by Mayor Tom Bradley to conduct a sweeping review of the department. |
| Filename | indep-box23-09-04~15.tif |
| Archival file | Volume78/indep-box23-09-04~15.tif |
