LOS ANGELES : Evidence From King Case Loaned to U.S. Prosecutors
About 100 exhibits from the trial of four Los Angeles police officers accused of beating Rodney G. King were released Tuesday for use in a federal probe of possible civil rights charges against the officers.
Superior Court Judge Stanley Weisberg, who presided at the trial in Simi Valley, approved a one-month loan of the exhibits, to be returned Aug. 28.
The items, including videotapes and audiotapes, the boots worn by officers the night of March 3, 1991, and the batons used to beat the black motorist, were expected to be presented to a federal grand jury.
King’s beating, recorded on an amateur’s videotape, shocked the nation and led to last spring’s trial of four white police officers. On April 29, jurors acquitted the officers on most charges, sparking three days of deadly rioting in Los Angeles.
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