DOI: 10.25549/independent-ouc11399kz1q
title: 4.3. General counsel King, 1991 Mar. 6 - Apr. 10

description: 4.3 General counsel King, 1991 March 6 - April 10. PART OF A SERIES: The series pertains to the work of Munger, Tolles & Olson, the firm responsible for coordinating the activities and proceedings of the Independent Commission's legal counsel. Included are legal briefs, court transcripts, and memoranda; press releases and article clippings about the Rodney King incident and the subsequent creation of the Independent Commission; summaries of witness interviews; analyses of legislation regarding the role and purview of peace officers; work plans and outlines developed by Commission staff; draft copies developed for all sections of the Commission report; supplemental materials for the report, including a copy of the Rodney King arrest log, law enforcement literature, and public opinion surveys; materials distributed and reviewed during Commission meetings; letters of interest submitted to Chairman Christopher from prospective Commission members and organizations; and lists of bills and Commission expenditures.1. Tape of L.A. police beating suspect stirs public furor, 1991-03-062. Beating victim says he obeyed police, 1991-03-073. Witnesses depict relentless beating, 1991-03-074. Victim's account of the police beating, 1991-03-075. Incident gives city a national black eye, 1991-03-076. Grim Gates faces heated questions, 1991-03-087. Beating case considered by grand jury, 1991-03-128. Gates wants 3 officers prosecuted in beating, 1991-03-089. Gates shuffles LAPD brass, 1991-03-1310. Mayor to seek power to oust top officials, 1991-03-1311. Mayor's office seen directing ouster effort, 1991-03-1512. At least 4 officers indicted in beating, 1991-03-1513. Chief Gates should quite, Sen. Biden says, 1991-03-1814. Police communications transcript, 1991-03-2015. Pressure by Bradley, others on Gates grows, 1991-03-2016. D.A. vows wider probe of beating as 4 are arraigned, 1991-03-1617. ACLU figure named to police board, 1991-03-1618. Federal charges being considered in King beating, 1991-03-1619. Patrol car log in beating released, 1991-03-1920. Bradley urged release of transcript, political heat rises, 1991-03-1921. Police documents disclose beating was downplayed, 1991-03-2022. Gates defends police at fiery council meeting, 1991-03-2123. Police say tests show King was legally drunk, 1991-03-2224. King: medical reports on effects of police beating conflict, 1991-03-2225. FBI starts fast with inquiry of King beating, 1991-03-2626. Woo says Gates should quit or be fired, 1991-03-2727. L.A. police ask state to probe new robbery allegations against King, 1991-03-2728. Foothill station seeks to mend fences, 1991-03-2729. Officers plead not guilty in King beating, 1991-03-2730. Videotape haunts officers who were at beating scene, 1991-03-2831. Gates offers plan to revive confidence in the LAPD, 1991-03-2832. Grand jury widens probe of King beating, 1991-03-2933. Atty. Gen. agrees to conduct robbery investigation of King, '1991-03-2934. Police inquiry panels may join forces, 1991-04-0235. Woo takes call for Gates to quit to black churches, ministers, 1991-04-0236. Bradley asks Gates to quit for good of city, 1991-04-0337. Bradley's change of view; Text of Mayor's statement, 1991-04-0338. Growing pressure seen behind Mayor's action, 1991-04-0339. Mayor's tactics are unfair, Gates charges, 1991-04-0440. Police panel to confront issue of Gates' fate, 1991-04-0441. Crisis in the LAPD: the Rodney King case, 1991-04-0542. Word on removal spreads quickly in South-Central L.A.; Interim chief to be 'Steward', 1991-04-0543. Gates to challenge commission decision in court; For the chief, a quiet exit and a vow to return, 1991-04-0544. Council poised to battle mayor, commission, 1991-04-0545. Gates put on leave, pledges to appeal commission action, 1991-04-0546. City council acts to reinstate Gates despite plea by Bradley, 1991-04-0647. Divided city sees politics in mayor's move, 1991-04-0648. Bradley aides regroup to assess Gate's future, 1991-04-0749. Suit planned to block Gates' reinstatement, 1991-04-0850. Judge reinstates Gates in a temporary ruling, 1991-04-0951. City atty. role raises conflict of interest issue, 1991-04-0952. Los Angeles police chief staying for now after suing to keep job, 1991-04-0953. Crisis in the LAPD: the Rodney King case, 1991-04-0954. Police answer to public amid furor over beating, 1991-04-1055. Gates gets hero's welcome on his return to work, 1991-04-1056. Bradley names defense lawyer to police board, 1991-04-1057. Gates, Bradley declare a truce, 1991-04-1058. Judge in Gates case combines taste for poetry, jurisprudence, 1991-04-10