DOI: 10.25549/independent-ouc11399kv68
title: Commission meetings: newspaper clippings, 1991-03-06 - 1991-04-10

description: Commission meetings: newspaper clippings, 1991 March 6 - April 10. PART OF A SERIES: Materials in the series fall into one of several categories related to the Independent Commission's work product: (1) Commission meeting materials, which include meeting agendas, work plans, memoranda, and articles about police misconduct that were circulated and reviewed during the Commission's internal meetings; (2) public correspondence, which includes citizen complaints against the LAPD in the form of written testimony, articles, and an audio cassette tape, as well as letters drafted by citizens in support of the LAPD; (3) summaries of interviews held with LAPD officers regarding Departmental procedures and relations; (4) public meeting materials, which include transcripts, supplementary documents, and witness statements that were reviewed at the Commission's public meetings; (5) press releases related to the formation and work product of the Commission; and (6) miscellaneous materials reviewed by the Commission during its study, including LAPD personnel and training manuals, a memorandum of understanding, and messages from the LAPD's Mobile Digital Terminal (MDT) system. 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, 1991-03-1512.1. At least 4 officers indicted in beating, 1991-03-1512.2. Chief Gates should quit, Sen. Biden says, 1991-03-1812.3. Police communications transcript, 1991-03-2012.4. Pressure by Bradley, others on Gates grows, 1991-03-2013. D.A. vows wider probe of beating as 4 are arraigned, 1991-03-1614. ACLU figure named to police board, 1991-03-1615. Federal charges being considered in King beating, 1991-03-1616. Patrol car log in beating released, 1991-03-1917. Bradley urged release of transcript; political heat rises, 1991-03-1918. Police documents disclose beating was downplayed, 1991-03-2019. Gates defends police at fiery council meeting, 1991-03-2120. Police say tests show King was legally drunk, 1991-03-2221. FBI starts fast with inquiry of King beating, 1991-03-2622. Woo says Gates should quit or be fired, 1991-03-2723. L.A. police ask state to probe new robbery allegations against King, 1991-03-2724. Foothill station seeks to mend fences, 1991-03-2725. Officers plead not guilty in King beating, 1991-03-2726. Videotape haunts officers who were at beating scene, 1991-03-2827. Gates offers plan to revive confidence in the LAPD, 1991-03-2828. Grand jury widens probe of King beating, 1991-03-2929. Atty. Gen. agrees to conduct robbery investigation of King, 1991-03-2930. Police inquiry panels may join forces, 1991-04-0231. Woo takes call for Gates to quit to black churches, ministers, 1991-04-0232. Bradley asks Gates to quit for good of city, 1991-04-0333. Text of mayor's statement, 1991-04-0334. Growing pressure seen behind mayor's action, 1991-04-0335. Mayor's tactics are unfair, Gates charges, 1991-04-0436. Police panel to confront issue of Gates' fate, 1991-04-0437. Crisis in the LAPD: the Rodney King case, 1991-04-0538. Word on removal spreads quickly in south-central L.A.; Interim chief to be 'steward', 1991-04-0539. Gates to challenge commission decision in court; For the chief, a quiet exit and a vow to return, 1991-04-0540. Council poised to battle mayor, commission, 1991-04-0541. Gates put on leave, pledges to appeal commission action, 1991-04-0542. City council acts to reinstate Gates despite plea by Bradley, 1991-04-0643. Divided city sees politics in mayor's move, 1991-04-0644. Bradley aides regroup to assess Gates' future, 1991-04-0745. Suit planned to block Gates' reinstatement, 1991-04-0846. Judge reinstates Gates in a temporary ruling, 1991-04-0948. City Atty. role raises conflict of interest issue, 1991-04-0949. Los Angeles police chief staying for now after suing to keep job, 1991-04-0950. Police answer to public amid furor over beating, 1991-04-1051. Gates gets hero's welcome on his return to work, 1991-04-1052. Bradley names defense lawyer to police board, 1991-04-1053. Gates, Bradley declare a truce, 1991-04-1054. Judge in Gates case combines tase for poetry, jurisprudence, 1991-04-10