European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 12, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 c the stars and stripes tuesday May 12, 1992 King trial named adviser in riot probe los Angeles up the police commission on monday named former Fri and Cia chief William h. Webster As a special adviser to investigate the police departments response to the most deadly civil disturbance of the Century. Former Newark n.j., police chief Hubert Williams resident of the Ashington based police foundation and former president of the nation Webster Al organization of Black Law enforcement officers was named Deputy special adviser. Or w the appointments were made official in a special commission meeting one Day before chief Daryl Gates was scheduled to explain the departments response to the initial outbreak of violence on april 29, shortly after four White current and former los Angeles police officers were acquitted of criminal charges in the videotaped beating of Black Motorist Rodney g. King. The Small scattered acts of violence mushroomed into a three Day rampage of assaults fires and rampant looting. Quot this is not going to be a study that will Lay blame a commission president Stanley Sheinbaum told a news conference. Quot we want to move Gates said last week that his department responded a a beautifully to the riot situation and the Only major Quot glitch was a lieutenants decision to order his offi cers to pull out of South los Angeles neighbourhoods where angry rioters first attacked innocent bystanders. Gates scheduled to retire at the end of june has been under fire since the March 3, 1991, King beating and has been criticized for his departments handling of the earliest indications of violence particularly in Light predictions that a not guilty verdict could to violence. The rampage claimed More 4han 50 lives and property damage estimates were projected to top $1 billion. Neatly 16,000 people were arrested for charges ranging from curfew violations to murder. Webster 68, a former . District and 8th . Circuit court judge was Fri director from 1976 to 1987 and of the Cia from 1987 to 1991. He said he was in Hong Kong during the deadly los Angeles riots which he called Quot a great a there Are i am sure lessons to be Learned a Webster said. A i honestly have no Webster said he and Williams would be assisted by Law enforcement officials and attorneys in examining the series of events and performances of the agencies involved including communication Between the National guard and local government officials. In addition the panel will look into the police departments preparedness for handling civil unrest. Sheinbaum said Gates had assured the commission late last month that contingency plans were in place for handling violence that had been anticipated in the Wake of the King police trial verdicts. Brown takes his Campaign Down to gang level by the los Angeles times los Angeles a democratic presidential candidate Jerry Brown met with gang members sunday ostensibly to hear their impressions of the los Angeles riots. He came away with two More passengers for his Campaign plane. The former Cantoria go discussion with a dozen hispanic and Black gang Mem the former California governor ended his 40-minute on a Bers by inviting two of them to accompany him Campaign trip sunday night to West Virginia. Aner hearing about life in the projects frequently related in Blunt language Brown asked the Rev. Greg Boyle of the Dolores Mission to help choose the Young men neither of whom had Ever been on an air plane. One of those chosen was Titi Gomez 20. Like Many of the others Gomez said he had heard Browne a name before but was unaware that he was running for president. Robert Leon 22, was also chosen to accompany Brown largely because he is not in school and Doe not have a Job he would have to miss. The pair were to leave los Angeles at Midnight sunday and return sometime monday. Leon who prefers to be called by his gang name of Ace was one of the More outspoken of the afternoons speakers. He told of working on a construction Job in Beverly Hills and being regularly stopped by police who told him Quot you done to belong police treat us like animals and think we Arentt human just because we Are poor. There is no Justice. We Are not later addressing a fund raising rally in Laguna Beach Brown compared president Bush Ana other members of his family to the looters in los Angeles suggesting that the Bushes and other wealthy business people Ana politicians had served As Quot role models for the people who broke into shops during the riots last week. Brown told the crowd gathered on the main Beach that the youths he met in the Boyle Heights Section of los Angeles All said they had turned to pushing drugs and other crimes because they could find no other employment. Quot what they re asking for is simple Justice. The right to work and support their families Brown said. Quot lets condemn the looters in l.a., but lets Start right at the top with the president his sons and his brother. Maybe they were the role models. Maybe Neil presidential candidate Jerry Brown talks with los Angeles gang members at the Dolores Mission on sunday. Bush was a role Model for All those Neil Bush was a director of the defunct Silverado savings and in Denver. The a amp los collapse Cost taxpayers $1 billion. The informal meeting with gang members was arranged through Boyle an Anglo priest who has gained the respect of the local a homeboys a or gang members. Brown sat in the Middle of a semicircle of chairs arranged at the missions modest altar. Pointing to about 15 reporters and Campaign aides gathered in the Church to cover a routine Campaign Stop Brown told the youths Quot when in a Here they bring their Little machines and they listen to me. But maybe they will listen to the Media and Brown got an earful. A a it a too bad that you people Only come when they bum the whole City Down a said a who would Only identify himself As Bandit. Down Here. R a Young Man 1 Only identify himself As Bandit. A recurring theme was jobs. Brown asked Why More of the Young men did no to work. As others smirked one gang member explained the economics of the Street to Brown Quot Why work for $4.25 an hour when you can make $600 a night Selling drugs a Clinton blames . Woes on neglect of needy Caw co a in can / a let a Unni i. T. I. I ,. _ san Francisco a demo cratic presidential front runner Bill Clinton said sunday that inner City turmoil showed the country was Quot in the grip of a selfishness that would kill any nation Quot because of 1980s policies that favored the Rich and ignored the needy. A ooh to be sure it was heartbreaking to see Tittle children going into the streets of los Angeles and stealing from the neighbors a Clinton told a mothers Day Church service. Quot but they live in a country where the top 1 percent of americans have More than the Bottom 90 the Arkansas governor paid a poignant tribute to his Mother a widowed before he was born a and contrasted his upbringing with that of a 13-year-old Washington d.c., boy who was caught in Street Cross fire and killed As he and his family drove Home from Church. Quot the tale of those two mothers shows the Gap Between americans Promise and its reality a Clinton told the multiracial congregation of the Glide United methodist Church As he campaigned for the states june 2 presidential primary. Clinton faces former California gov. Jerry Brown in that contest but As is routine now never mentioned him while making two san Francisco Church appearances before he participated in a hispanic festival and headed to Nebraska which holds its primary today. He also never mentioned president Bush by name even As he ridiculed the oops a family values theme saying Republican administrations have presided Over the decline of families strength. Clinton said his mothers first three husbands died and Quot through it All she loved me and my brother. She gave us a mothers love a unconditional love and discipline and values and the sense that we were the most important person in the world to somebody. A now her son is in san Francisco looking at americans Rainbow asking for the Chance to bring a mothers love Back to this country a Clinton said. A for All the talk of family values by those who have governed this country for 20 of the last 24 years we done to do anything like we should in the rearing and raising of children a Clinton said. Under republicans Clinton said the country had a a laughable system of child support enforcement a did too Little to help poor and working mothers with Day care and gave far too Little prenatal and other health care to poor mothers. Quot where Are they when the family values can to be found on the streets of this country a Clinton said. Before Clinton a speech a Parade of parishioners told tales and asked for prayers for battered and abused women and the pastor the Rev. Cecil Williams also asked for government help for los Angeles and other impoverished inner cities. Quot the voices of people crying in the wilderness the voice crying in the ghettos of America must be heard a Williams said. A it is my Hope that at the White House these voices will be heard. But i doubt As he introduced Clinton Williams said the country a must have new leadership a committed to poor cities and to combating aids. Clinton said too Little attention has been paid to fighting aids a a subject that comes up when a famous person gets it. Every Day people Are dying in
