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Dragnet
Schrag, Peter | March 9, 1998 issue

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The article presents information on the book "Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angles and LAPD," by Lou Cannon. In the conventional version of the story, the beating of Rodney King by a group of white Los Angeles cops in the early hours of March 3, 1991, recorded in all its viciousness on an amateur's fortuitous videotape, was yet another indication of the pervasive brutality and racism of an out-of-control police department. In light of Cannon's revisionist account, if the Rodney King story is not the simple tale of the televised tape, neither is it a unique drama coupling, almost fortuitously, a collection of badly trained cops, bungling judges and politicians guilty of inexcusable neglect and indifference.

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OFFICIAL Negligence (Book); CANNON, Lou; KING, Rodney; VIDEO tapes; RACISM; LOS Angeles (Calif.); CALIFORNIA; UNITED States
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