LOS ANGELES : Judge Upholds LAPD’s Firing of Timothy Wind
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled that the Los Angeles Police Department does not have to reconsider its decision to fire Timothy Wind, one of four officers charged in the 1991 police beating of Rodney G. King.
In denying the officer’s request, Judge Robert H. O’Brien stated that Wind was given a proper hearing under the City Charter and that “it would not be considered just” to order the department to rethink its decision.
Wind, who has a desk job as a community aide at the Culver City Police Department, was acquitted of criminal charges and federal civil rights charges stemming from King’s March 3, 1991, beating. Police Chief Willie L. Williams rejected a department investigator’s recommendation last summer that Wind’s dismissal be changed to a suspension.
Deputy City Atty. Arthur Walsh, representing the LAPD and the city, said the department has no obligation to reconsider Wind’s case because Wind was on probation when he was fired and cannot appeal the decision to the department’s board of rights.
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