Filer of False Brutality Claim Ordered to Do Chores for Police : Sentence: An Encino man who said he was beaten shortly after the Rodney G. King incident must perform 200 hours of labor at the West Valley station.

An Encino man who falsely claimed that he was beaten by a Los Angeles policeman shortly after the Rodney G. King case erupted was sentenced Tuesday to perform 200 hours of community service at the police station where his claim was investigated.

Randy Isaacson, 31, received the sentence in Van Nuys Municipal Court after pleading no contest to a misdemeanor charge of making a false police report.

Judge Alan Ellis also placed Isaacson on two years probation.

Two other misdemeanor charges of obstructing a police officer were dropped under the terms of a plea agreement, Deputy City Atty. Laura Van Eyk said.

Authorities said Isaacson was injured in a fight at a liquor store March 24, but when he sought medical attention at Tarzana Medical Center he concocted the story that two officers stopped him for a traffic infraction and one punched him for no reason.

Detective Joel Price said Isaacson hoped the bogus story would win him a financial settlement from the embattled Police Department, which has been under intense scrutiny since the videotaped March 3 beating of motorist King spawned an outcry over police brutality.

Isaacson will have to perform 200 hours of work at the Police Department’s West Valley Division, where Price and four supervisors each spent several hours investigating his claim.

Isaacson was charged after an acquaintance who originally confirmed the police-beating story recanted and said that Isaacson made the story up after being injured during the fight at the liquor store.

“His story went from ‘Police beat me’ to ‘I was drunk and don’t remember,’ ” Van Eyk said of Isaacson.

Price said that people sentenced to community service at the station usually do maintenance chores, including washing and waxing patrol cars.

“I think it is certainly a just sentence,” Price said. “He probably won’t like seeing me here, but we can use the help around here.”