University Daily Kansan / Friday, May 1, 199>
LOS ANGELES RIOTS
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Rioting in South Central Los Angeles
Knight-Ridder Tribune
Bush condemns LA destruction
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Bush condemned murder and destruction by Los Angeles rioters yesterday but at the same time said the Justice Department would intensify its investigation of police conduct in the taped-bearing case that ignited the violence.
Bush met at the White House with Attorney General William Barr, who raised the possibility that the four officers acquitted of brutality charges in state court could face federal charges if his investigation shows they violated the civil rights of the motorist they beat.
The president also appealed for an end to the street violence that followed the acquaintances on Wednesday and continued yesterday.
mind, yesterday.
"The murder and destruction on the streets of Los Angeles must be stopped," Bush said.
Barr said the federal government will move as quickly as possible to determine whether there are grounds to charge the four white policemen with violating the civil rights of Rodney King, who is African-American.
Barr sent Associate Attorney General Wayne Budd, an African-American former U.S. attorney in Boston, to Los Angeles to meet with officials there. The attorney general said investigators will try to determine whether there was intentional infliction of excessive force against King by the officers who had stopped him for speeding.
"In the American conscience there is no room for bigry and racism." Bush
said in a brief statement at the White House.
Arson and looting erupted again yesterday in Los Angeles. Nine people were killed there Wednesday night.
Neither Barr nor Bush would characterize the acquittal verdict by the California jury in the case. However, White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said Bush felt the same frustration everyone else does.
"He saw the videotape and it's hard to compare that to the verdict and not wonder what happened," Fitzwater said.
When the videotaped beating of King was made public last year, Bush said, "What we're going to do is look into violations of the law and prosecute any people that are violating the federal law and speak against police brutality, because what I saw made me sick."
Justice Department officials made it clear that the investigation was not limited to the four officers. It will also include an examination of the conduct of other officers at the scene of King's beating.
Federal civil rights laws carry a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison for convicted violators.
FBI Director William Sessions joined Barr at a Justice Department news conference in which the attorney general said that since October 1988, his agency has filed charges against 123 law enforcement officers for police brutality, and has won convictions against 75 percent of them.
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