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Wednesday, April 3, 1996
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Mexico outraged about police attack
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — The FBI opened a civil rights investigation yesterday into the videotaped clubbing of two illegal immigrants, and the Mexican government condemned the beating as a flagrant violation of the rights of its citizens.
Sheriff's deputies clubbed the immigrants Monday after chasing a battered pickup crammed with people suspected of sneaking across the border. TV news helicopters captured the beating on video in broad daylight.
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During the chase, the pickup reached speeds of 100 mph, its shabby camper top disintegrating in the wind and revealing the people crowded inside. It finally stopped on the side of the freeway, and the passengers in the truck bed ran away.
One deputy, holding his baton like a baseball bat, was videotaped clubbing the driver on the back and shoulders, even as the driver fell to the ground face down.
When a woman got out of the cab, the same deputy beat her in the back with the baton, then grabbed her by the hair and pulled her to the ground. At least one other deputy struck her with his baton.
Neither person, each of whom was Mexican, appeared to resist or attempt to get away.
The unidentified driver was in a hospital's jail ward with bruises and a possible broken elbow, said Sgt. Mark Lohman, spokesman of Riverside County Sheriff's Department. The woman, identified as 33-yearold Leticia Gonzalez, was bruised on her face and arms and released yesterday to the custody of her lawyer, David Ross.
Police, who initially said the truck
carried 21 people, said yesterday that 19, including the two beaten, were in the custody of the Immigration and Naturalization Service pending deportation proceedings.
Film of the beatings was shown repeatedly on television in Mexico and the United States, provoking a furious outcry from human-rights groups.
"He's concerned," White House press secretary Mike McCurry said when asked President Clinton's reaction.
The deputies, one with Riverside for 20 years, the other for five, were immediately suspended with pay. Their names weren't released.
"I'm not going to stand up here and say that there was no force used, because you would laugh me out of the room," Lohman told reporters yesterday. "We saw it; we saw the same videotape that everyone's seen, and we're embarrassed."
Both the Los Angeles and Riverside sheriff's departments were investigating.
Suspect held in Pittsburg State student's death
Paroled murderer in police custody
The Associated Press
PITTSBURG — Police said yesterday they were holding a suspect in the murder of a Pittsburg State University student, a slaying that has frightened the tightknit campus community.
The suspect was arrested Monday night in Springfield, Mo., on an unrelated rape charge from Crawford County. Police identified him as Gary W. Kleypas, a man on parole after serving time in Missouri for murder.
Kleypas lived two houses away from 20-year-old Carrie Arlene Williams, of Parsons, who was found dead in her apartment Saturday afternoon.
Kleypas was being held in the Crawford County jail after he was returned from Springfield.
"Kleypas has not been arrested for the murder of Carrie Williams but is the focus of the investigation," the Pittsburg Police Department said in a news release.
University officials had scheduled a campus-wide meeting for last night to discuss safety questions and tell students about counseling services.
Kleypas, 40, was convicted of second-degree murder in 1977 and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
"I thought this was a decent
neighborhood."
neighbor of murdered student
He was on parole when Williams was killed and was under the supervision of the parole office in Pittsburg.
Police did not say when Kleypas, a nursing student at Pittsburg State, was paroled.
The investigation into Williams' death was continuing by a task force of 24 detectives. The slaying alarmed the closeknit campus of 6,500 students.
"It's just awful, awful," said Heather Hall, a junior who knows many of Williams' friends. "It seems like you know everyone. Eventually you have a class with everyone."
The university increased security at campus dorms, allowing entry only to those with proper identification. Neighbors near where Williams lived also were nervous.
"I thought this was a decent neighborhood," said David K. Miller of Kansas City, Kan. "I walked down that street and people would wave. Today, when I was riding to school, I didn't think it felt so safe."
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