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Common terms and phrasesAfrican Americans Angeles County Angeles Police arrest asked assault baton blows believed Bradley Braun Briseno California called charge Christopher Commission Clymer command post Conta convicted court courtroom crime criminal cross-examination Daryl Gates Davies defense attorneys Denny DePasquale Deputy District Attorney Duke Escobel excessive force Faal fire Florence and Normandie Fuhrman Harland Braun Holliday Ibid Interview Jaxon Van Derbeken judge jurors jury King beating King incident King's knew Koon and Powell Koon's Korean Kowalski LAPD officers LAPD's Latasha Harlins later Latinos Laurence Powell lawyer mayor Metro Moulin Mounger Parker Parker Center patrol percent Police Commission police officers political Powell's prison prosecution prosecutors racial Reginald Denny Reiner Riordan riots Rodney King Salzman sentence Sergeant shooting Simi Valley South Central Stacey Koon Stone suspect tape Taser television testified testimony thought told Ventura County verdicts videotape wanted Watts riot Weisberg Williams Wind witness Popular passagesPage 73 - Chief of Police Parker appears to be the focal point of the criticism within the Negro community. He is a man distrusted by most Negroes and they carefully analyze for possible anti-Negro meaning almost every action he takes and every statement he makes. Many Negroes feel that he carries a deep hatred of the Negro community. However, Chief Parker's statements to us and collateral evidence such as his record of fairness to Negro officers are inconsistent with his having such an attitude. Page 371 - Why? How can I? The past is the present, isn't it? It's the future, too. We all try to lie out of that but life won't let us. Page 61 - Governor Smith, as President of these United States, with all the resources at his command, will be able to give the people of the United States a picture of the real social conditions under the present so-called prohibition laws. If, as a result of careful study, he can evolve a plan for the regulation and control of the liquor question -in a way that will absolutely prevent the return of the saloon, eliminate bootlegging, with its accompanying evils — graft... Page 603 - It has been uniform and constant in the federal judicial tradition for the sentencing judge to consider every convicted person as an individual and every case as a unique study in the human failings that sometimes mitigate, sometimes magnify, the crime and the punishment to ensue. We do not understand it to have been the congressional purpose to withdraw all sentencing discretion from the United States district judge. Page 100 - we may be finding that in some Blacks when [the chokehold] is applied the veins or arteries do not open up as fast as they do on normal people," he was reflecting the sentiments of the white dominant culture of law enforcement in Los Angeles. References to this bookFrom other books
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