Exhibit 1251 ยท Newspaper article
Beating Victim Says He Obeyed Police (Tracy Wood and Faye Fiore, Los Angeles Times, 7 March 1991)
While Gates called the beating an aberration, Bradley said it points to a breakdown in leadership
Report on Rodney King's account, the district attorney's decision not to charge him and reactions of city officials to the videotaped beating.
- Source
- Los Angeles Times
- Date
- 7 March 1991
- Quoted from
- Article text, near the end of the story (3-page scan; page number not legible)
- Grade
- Reported
- Document
- https://scalar.usc.edu/works/the-los-angeles-riots-christopher-and-webster-commissions-collections/media/Beating_victim_says_he_obeyed_police_19910307.pdf
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Reported grade; the Christopher Commission report (July 1991, p. 12) records the same statement: 'Chief Gates also described the incident as an aberration and expressed his hope that the public would not judge the entire Department on this one case.' Replace with the primary LAPD or Chief's statement if one is found. Speaker: Daryl F. Gates, Chief of Police; Tom Bradley, Mayor.