European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 7, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday. March 7, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 7 videotape shot from an apartment Balcony shows what appears to be two los Angeles police officers heating and kicking a Motorist while other officers  shows police kicking hitting suspect a by Jeff Wilson the associated press los Angeles a police repeatedly clubbed and kicked a Motorist lying on the ground and a neighbourhood resident caught it on videotape. Now the Fri and the District attorney Are considering whether to charge the officers. Civil rights activists tuesday branded the beating part of a pattern of police misconduct in the nations second largest City. Police chief Daryl Gates said if the of of leers actions prove to be out of line it could not be considered representative of his department. Police reports on the incident asserted that Rodney Glenn King who allegedly Nad driven a car involved in a Chase tried to get up off the ground and charge an officer a and tried again even after being shocked with a stun gun. The videotape played on National television tuesday showed King did try to get to his feet at one Point but gave no indication he tried to strike any of about 10 officers surrounding him. The resident who made the videotape and three other witnesses also said King did not fight the officers. After the beating one witness. Dorothy Gibson said the officers a were All laughing and chuckling like they had just had a  throughout most of the two minute tape King is on his Back or on his stomach while several officers flail at his head arms and legs with nightsticks. One officer is seen kicking King at least six times. In All King was struck or kicked about 30 times. Icing 25, was treated at a Hospital for two clays before being taken to jail tuesday. He suffered a broken leg and bruised Arm and the a Side of his face was deformed a said his wife Crystal. The Fri announced tuesday that it will investigate possible civil rights violations spokesman Fred Reagan said. The District attorneys special investigations division which examines allegations of splice brutality said it too is opening an inquiry. A we want to determine if there is a criminal Case against the officers a spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said. Quot we re going to proceed on this very  police internal affairs investigators made copies of the tape for their investigation. A v a a. A Gates said a even if we determine that the officers were out of line it is an aberration. Anyone who viewed this tape would hasten to make a Quick  prosecutors have not decided whether to charge King who previously was convicted of a .i9s9 robbery. King was booked for investigation of evading police officers and investigation of parole violation. Bail was not immediately set. Ramona Ripston of the american civil liberties. Union said the police chief a must be held responsible for this kind of brutal  she said that her Acle chapter receives about 55 Calls a week alleging police brutality. A the time has come to take a very deep look at what the department does a she said adding that racism might have played a part in the attack. King is Black. Police did not release the identities or races of the officers. After viewing the video mayor Tom Bradley said a i am As shocked and outraged As  the episode began Early sunday As California Highway patrol officers tried to Stop a car they said was travelling More than 100 Mph. City police helped pull the car Over in the Lake View Terrace neighbourhood about 20 Miles from downtown los Angeles. Police reports quoted by the los Angeles times said that after lying on the ground As ordered King tried to get up and charge at his captors. Even after one officer shocked King with a Taser fun gun a King recovered almost immediately and resumed his hostile charge a a police report said. Then officers began hitting him with their nightsticks. Witnesses a including George Holliday 31, who videotaped the incident from his apartment Balcony a saw things differently lie said he watched with his wife As about 10 squad cars pulled Over a White Sedan. A Quot before they started hitting him he was pretty much cooperative a he said. A i was trying to think what could he have done to deserve that a a a i never saw him offer any resistance a said another witness Eloise Camp who said she watched As the arrest and beating unfolded. Two other witnesses,.gibson and Josie Morales offered similar accounts. A three said they saw the incident from Start to  pushes plan to silence guns at Home Washington up 1�? president Bush pushing his stalled crime package declared it is time to a silence the guns Here at Home now that Ameri Chias won the persian Gulf War. Bush speaking to an administration a crime Summit tuesday was interrupted by applause 10 times in a speech that Drew on War Victory themes and called for Tough anti crime measures at Home. A Quot because now that the shooting has stopped overseas we be got to redouble our efforts to silence the guns Here at Home a Bush said. He said it was time a to give Back our streets to americans  Bush spoke to some 650 police chiefs state and local prosecutors and corrections officials on the final afternoon of a two Day Justice department Effort to push the administration s anti crime initiatives if the current session of Congress. \ Bush was introduced by attorney general Dick Thornburgh who praised the president As a part of the coalition tha has restored the Rule of Law in the persian gulf.�?�. He received three standing ovations from the crowd which  director William sessions. A a during the first three Days of the Allied ground offensive in Kuwait and Iraq Bush said a More americans were killed in some american cities than at the entire kuwaiti  a think of  one of. Our Brave National a to guardsmen May have actually been safer in the midst of the largest armoured offensive in history than he would have been on the streets of his own Hometown a Bush said. A a it a outrageous its wrong and it s going to change. A a the kind of moral Force and National will that freed Kuwait City from abuse can free America s cities from crime a he said. Bush renewed his Call for Congress to enact several controversial anti crime measures that civil libertarians trial lawyers and Many judges regard with great suspicion. Quot America needs a crime Bill that a Tough on criminals not on Law enforcement a Bush said. He renewed his push for Congress to alter the a exclusionary Rule a a constitutional Rule of Law that excludes evidence seized As a result of. Illegal police conduct. Bush also called for changing Hab us Corpus a procedures contending they cause a frivolous  he also called for Quot a workable death penalty which is to say a real death  a on monday Thornburgh proposed stricter prison terms Tor criminals who use automatic weapons and for other violators of Federal firearms Laws. But the attorney general stopped Short of supporting a Call by major City police chiefs and other Law enforcement groups for passage of the a Brady Bill to impose a nationwide seven Day waiting period to Purchase a gun. Bush did not mention the gun control Bill either. The administration last year proposed a w Ide ranging anti crime Bill to impose the death penalty for More crimes and restrict appeals by death Row inmates. The measure died in a House conference committee when Congress adjourned. The tougher death penalty measure was held up by concern about adequate standards to assure that death Row inmates receive proper Legal representation