title: Rodney King
LAPD: Life on the Beat
John Davies (swimmer)
1992 Los Angeles riots
Gregory Powell (murderer)
Willie L. Williams
Fuhrman tapes
Los Angeles Police Department
Laurence Powell
West Las Vegas riots
sentences: Rodney Glen King (April 2, 1965 – June 17, 2012) was a taxi driver who became internationally known after a tape was released of him being beaten on March 3, 1991, by Los Angeles Police Department officers following a high-speed car chase.
 A witness, George Holliday, videotaped much of the beating from his balcony, and sent the footage to local news station KTLA.
 The footage shows four officers surrounding King, several of them striking him repeatedly, while other officers stood by.
 Parts of the footage were aired around the world, and raised public concern about police treatment of minorities in the United States.
LAPD: Life on the Beat (sometimes referred to individually as LAPD or Life on the Beat) is an American reality television series that follows officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, as they respond to various incidents within their precincts' jurisdiction.
 The program aired in first-run syndication from September 11, 1995 to September 10, 1999 (premiering in 1997 in Portugal).
 Like its contemporary, "COPS", "LAPD" followed police officers on patrol and during investigations; however unlike "COPS", "Life on the Beat" only featured police officers from the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD).
 The series was originally titled simply "LAPD" for its first season in 1995, before adopting the expanded title in 1996, in conjunction with the introduction of an upgraded graphical look.
John Griffith Davies (born 17 May 1929) is an Australian breaststroke swimmer of the 1940s and 1950s who won a gold medal in the 200-metre breaststroke at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.
 After retiring from competition swimming, he became a prominent lawyer in California, and after becoming a naturalized American, he was appointed a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, and presided over the trial of the Los Angeles Police Department officers charged with assaulting Rodney King.
The 1992 Los Angeles riots, also known as the Rodney King riots, the South Central riots, the 1992 Los Angeles civil disturbance, the 1992 Los Angeles civil unrest, and the Los Angeles uprising, were a series of riots, lootings, arsons, and civil disturbances that occurred in Los Angeles County, California in April and May 1992.
 The unrest began in South Central Los Angeles on April 29 after a trial jury acquitted four officers of the Los Angeles Police Department of the use of excessive force in the videotaped arrest and beating of Rodney King.
 It then spread throughout the Los Angeles metropolitan area as thousands of people rioted over a six-day period following the announcement of the verdict.
Gregory Ulas "Greg" Powell (August 2, 1933 – August 12, 2012) was an American criminal who kidnapped Los Angeles Police Department Officers Ian Campbell and Karl Hettinger on the night of March 9, 1963.
 Assisted by accomplice Jimmy Lee "Youngblood" Smith, Powell took the officers to an onion field near Bakersfield, California, where Officer Campbell was fatally shot.
 Infamously known as the "Onion Field" Killer, Powell's story was depicted in Joseph Wambaugh's 1973 non-fiction book, "The Onion Field".
 The book was later made into a 1979 film adaptation of the same name in which Powell was portrayed by James Woods.
Willie L. Williams (October 1, 1943 – April 26, 2016) was the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) from 1992 to 1997, taking over after chief Daryl Gates' resignation following the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
 Williams was the first African-American police commissioner of both the Philadelphia Police Department and the LAPD.
 During his term as chief of the LAPD, he tried to create a positive image of the department and close the rift created between the police and black neighborhoods by the violent arrest of Rodney King in 1991.
The Fuhrman tapes are 13 hours of taped interviews given by Los Angeles police officer Mark Fuhrman to writer Laura McKinny between 1985 and 1994.
 The tapes include many racist slurs and remarks made by Fuhrman, including uses of the word "nigger," descriptions of police brutality perpetrated on black suspects, misogynist slurs and descriptions of the harassment and intimidation of female Los Angeles police officers by male officers.
 Portions of the tapes were admitted into evidence during the O. J. Simpson murder case.
 In the tapes Fuhrman also made many references to the "planting of evidence" and implied that police brutality and evidence planting were common practice in the Los Angeles Police Department.
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), officially the City of Los Angeles Police Department, is the law enforcement agency for the city of Los Angeles, California, United States.
 With 9,843 officers and 2,773 civilian staff, it is the third-largest municipal police department in the United States, after the New York City Police Department and the Chicago Police Department.
 The department serves an area of 498 sqmi and a population of 4,030,904 people.
Laurence Michael Powell (born August 26, 1962 in Los Angeles, California) is a former Los Angeles Police Department officer.
 He was one of the five officers involved in the beating of Rodney King on March 3, 1991.
The West Las Vegas riots were sparked on April 29, 1992, after the Rodney King verdict, where all four white Los Angeles Police Department officers were acquitted for the beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles, California.
 After the Los Angeles riots were sparked, Black residents of West Las Vegas had already started to loot and burned several stores.
 Gun battles had started with snipers at intersections and one white motorist was pulled from his vehicle and beaten.

Question: Question:  Laurence Michael Powell was one how many officers involved in the beating of Rodney King, a taxi driver who became internationally known after a tape was released of him being beaten on March 3, 1991, by Los Angeles Police Department officers? 

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 Rodney Glen King (April 2, 1965 – June 17, 2012) was a taxi driver who became internationally known after a tape was released of him being beaten on March 3, 1991, by Los Angeles Police Department officers following a high-speed car chase.
 A witness, George Holliday, videotaped much of the beating from his balcony, and sent the footage to local news station KTLA.
 The footage shows four officers surrounding King, several of them striking him repeatedly, while other officers stood by.
 Parts of the footage were aired around the world, and raised public concern about police treatment of minorities in the United States. 

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 LAPD: Life on the Beat (sometimes referred to individually as LAPD or Life on the Beat) is an American reality television series that follows officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, as they respond to various incidents within their precincts' jurisdiction.
 The program aired in first-run syndication from September 11, 1995 to September 10, 1999 (premiering in 1997 in Portugal).
 Like its contemporary, "COPS", "LAPD" followed police officers on patrol and during investigations; however unlike "COPS", "Life on the Beat" only featured police officers from the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD).
 The series was originally titled simply "LAPD" for its first season in 1995, before adopting the expanded title in 1996, in conjunction with the introduction of an upgraded graphical look. 

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 John Griffith Davies (born 17 May 1929) is an Australian breaststroke swimmer of the 1940s and 1950s who won a gold medal in the 200-metre breaststroke at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.
 After retiring from competition swimming, he became a prominent lawyer in California, and after becoming a naturalized American, he was appointed a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, and presided over the trial of the Los Angeles Police Department officers charged with assaulting Rodney King. 

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 The 1992 Los Angeles riots, also known as the Rodney King riots, the South Central riots, the 1992 Los Angeles civil disturbance, the 1992 Los Angeles civil unrest, and the Los Angeles uprising, were a series of riots, lootings, arsons, and civil disturbances that occurred in Los Angeles County, California in April and May 1992.
 The unrest began in South Central Los Angeles on April 29 after a trial jury acquitted four officers of the Los Angeles Police Department of the use of excessive force in the videotaped arrest and beating of Rodney King.
 It then spread throughout the Los Angeles metropolitan area as thousands of people rioted over a six-day period following the announcement of the verdict. 

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 Gregory Ulas "Greg" Powell (August 2, 1933 – August 12, 2012) was an American criminal who kidnapped Los Angeles Police Department Officers Ian Campbell and Karl Hettinger on the night of March 9, 1963.
 Assisted by accomplice Jimmy Lee "Youngblood" Smith, Powell took the officers to an onion field near Bakersfield, California, where Officer Campbell was fatally shot.
 Infamously known as the "Onion Field" Killer, Powell's story was depicted in Joseph Wambaugh's 1973 non-fiction book, "The Onion Field".
 The book was later made into a 1979 film adaptation of the same name in which Powell was portrayed by James Woods. 

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 Willie L. Williams (October 1, 1943 – April 26, 2016) was the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) from 1992 to 1997, taking over after chief Daryl Gates' resignation following the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
 Williams was the first African-American police commissioner of both the Philadelphia Police Department and the LAPD.
 During his term as chief of the LAPD, he tried to create a positive image of the department and close the rift created between the police and black neighborhoods by the violent arrest of Rodney King in 1991. 

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 The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), officially the City of Los Angeles Police Department, is the law enforcement agency for the city of Los Angeles, California, United States.
 With 9,843 officers and 2,773 civilian staff, it is the third-largest municipal police department in the United States, after the New York City Police Department and the Chicago Police Department.
 The department serves an area of 498 sqmi and a population of 4,030,904 people. 

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 Laurence Michael Powell (born August 26, 1962 in Los Angeles, California) is a former Los Angeles Police Department officer.
 He was one of the five officers involved in the beating of Rodney King on March 3, 1991. 

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Answer: five