
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 6, 1991                   TAG: 9103060366
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: LOS ANGELES                                LENGTH: Short

VIDEOTAPE APPARENTLY SHOWS POLICE BEATING

The FBI said Tuesday it was investigating a bystander's videotape of what appeared to be a group of police officers beating a motorist with nightsticks and kicking him Sunday as other officers look on.

"This is something we cannot and will not tolerate," Mayor Tom Bradley said. "I am as shocked and outraged as anyone."

The videotape, taken by a neighborhood resident, appears to show a handcuffed man, identified as Rodney Glenn King, 25, being struck repeatedly by three officers with batons as he lay on the ground. One officer was seen to kick him.

King was booked for investigation of evading police officers, a felony. He was treated at a hospital and remained in jail Tuesday.

California Highway Patrol officers trying to stop a car they said was traveling in excess of 100 mph requested assistance from city police, who pulled the car over 20 miles northwest of downtown, said police Capt. Thomas McBride.

- Associated Press

by CNB