The National Guard was called in to help restore order. Koon and the officers were subsequently indicted that same year on federal civil rights charges, and he and Powell were convicted and sentenced to 2.
The rage in the black community toward the LAPD was long-simmering and far from being limited to the King beating, dating back to well before the Watts riots, which were also fueled by allegations against the department of racism and brutality. Skip to content. Los Angeles. Powell had swung his baton as many as 40 times at King, who all the officers claimed was resisting arrest. King himself testified that he had initially resisted because he was afraid the arrest would result in a probation violation.
Powell, Koon, Wind and Ofc. Acquitted of criminal charges at his state trial, Koon was later convicted in federal court of violating King's civil rights and sentenced to 30 months in prison.
Instead, he blamed the riot on the reaction of the news media and city officials to King's beating. Koon lives in a Los Angeles suburb. Powell, one of the four officers, is seen on the video hitting King more than 40 times. He also was acquitted of state charges but convicted in federal court of violating King's civil rights and sentenced to 30 months in prison. He lives in the San Diego area and has said he will no longer discuss the King case. A highly regarded rookie cop until the King beating, Wind is seen on the videotape striking King with his baton.
Acquitted of all charges, he was still fired by the LAPD and has struggled to put his past behind him. He was hired as a police department community relations officer for the small Los Angeles suburb of Culver City in and remained in that job until when he moved to Indiana to attend law school.
Public records show he now lives in Kansas. Briseno, who stomped on King's back during the beating he claimed to keep King on the ground so the beating would stop , broke ranks with his fellow officers and sharply criticized their actions. A fellow officer quoted him as saying immediately after King's arrest that Koon had mishandled the situation. During his criminal trial he testified that Powell, who struck King the most, was out of control and the beating was excessive.
He was acquitted of all charges but was fired by the LAPD and struggled to find work afterward. He now lives in Illinois. Gates had been Los Angeles' chief of police for 14 years when the rioting erupted, and he was pressured to retire shortly afterward.
But he also was despised in the city's black community over perceived racism and remarks like one he made that blacks were more likely to die when placed in police chokeholds because their arteries did not reopen as quickly as those of "normal people. He was Holliday was awakened by the traffic stop outside his San Fernando Valley home.
He went outside to film it with his new video camera, catching the four white officers beating and kicking King. Holliday, who lives in a Los Angeles suburb and works as a plumber, says he is working on a documentary about his role in the King case. The Korean grocer's killing of a year-old black girl, Latasha Harlins, in a dispute over a bottle of orange juice, raised tensions in the black community just two weeks after King's beating.
Those tensions escalated further when she was convicted of manslaughter but sentenced only to probation and community service. Many in Los Angeles' black community still say Du's sentencing played almost as big a role in triggering the riot as King's beating.
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