Police report: Witnesses back King
nal police report on the videotaped
beating of Rodney King says civil
ian witnesses reported seeing King
LOS ANGKLES (AP) — An inter
■ wajmwee comply with officers’ orders Indore
LUlUSIkLU he was beaten, a newspaper report
ed Sunday.
Nine witnesses told investigators that King did not
exhibit the bizarre behavior officers on the scene
described, and that he did not appear to be uncontrol
lable as the police said.
"It seemed to me ho was obeying orders.” said
Dorothy Shimes. a nurse who lives in an apartment
building across the street from where King was stopped
"They told him to get down on the ground, and I
looked and saw him on the ground with his arms spread
out.” Shimes told the Pasadena Star-News
Shimes said one of the officers appeared out of con
‘He was beating him like you'd
use a broom to kill a mouse —
taking baseball swings at him.'
— Dorothy Shimes.
witness to LA beating
I rot to her.
He was tenting him like you'd use a broom to kill a
mouse — taking baseball swings at him." she said
Police spokeswoman Francine Spidi declined to
comment on the newspaper's account She said she
didn't have access to the police report, which was pre
pared by the department s internal affairs sec lion
Shinies' account matches that of other citizen wit
nesses, including a bus driver who was stopped behind
Student paper prints anti-Holocaust ad
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — An adver
tisement claiming the Holocaust
was a hoax has been printed in the
University of Texas student news
paper after more than a year of
debate.
The advertisement appeared in
Friday 's edition after the board that
oversees The Daily Texan voted (>-5
to accept it. The panel hatl re|o« ted
two similar ads since the first one
was submitted in late 1991.
Staffers said they were deluged
Friday with colls and mail express
ing outrage.
The ad was submitted by the
Committee for Open Debate on the
Holocaust, a group claiming the
World War II Holocaust was fabri
cated to "drum up support for Jew
ish causes "
Barbara Harberg. direr tor of tf>e
southwest regional office of the
Anti-Defamation l.oogue of B'nni
B'rith, said publication of the ad
was a sad commentary" on the
newspaper
‘USA Today’ fines
reporter for photo
WASHINGTON (AP) — USA Today has taken
"significant disciplinary action" against a reporter
for his role in arranging n misleading photograph of
gang members, the paper's president said Saturday.
The picture was set up under false pretenses.'
said Thomas Curley, who declined to provide
details on exactly how reporter Richard Price had
fawn disciplined. "That was wrong,
"We took n significant disciplinary action. We
feel that we did wrong and that there was an ethi
cal lapse." Curley said.
Price set up a front-page picture published in
Tuesday's editions that showed five angry--looking
black men with guns for n story about the potential
for gang violence In f.os Angeles
Neither the story nor the caption informed read
ers the men had been assembled by n community
activist or that they were to surrender their
weapons under a johs-for-guns program. Likewise,
neither mentioned the men originally had shown
up without guns and Price had driven one of them
to his mother's house to get his rifle so it could lie
displayed in the photo.
Thv Washington Post reported that Price had
been suspended fora month and fined thousands
of dollars.
Lee shows
‘Malcolm X’
to prisoners
NEW YORK (AH) — Filin
director Spike Lee used Sun
day's 2Hth anniversary of the
assassination of Malcolm X to
show his movie on the black
Muslim leader to BOO prisoners
and urge them to draw inspira
tion from the slain activist.
Lee reminded the inmates at
„ thu Hikers Island jail that Mal
colm X was in prison when he
turned to education and religion
and turned his life around Lee
said he was showing the film in
the ho(Hi of inspiring inmates to
stay out of jail after their release.
In a question-and-answer
jieriod with the inmates alter the
screening. Lee chided the Acad
emv of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences for nominating Scent
of a Woman and not Malcolm X
for liest picture. Mo said Scent of
a Woman will be forgotten in 40
years, but Malcolm X won't
“I think history will bear us
out." he said.
Lee, whose film opens with
portions of the videotape of the
Rodney King beating, alluded to
racial bias in the criminal justice
system Me said it was "no coin
cidence" that most of his prison
audience Sunday was black or
Hispanic.
Lee said he was inspired t
show the movie in prisons aft- r
boxer Mike Tyson, serving a
sentence in Indiana for rape,
asked to see it Tyson loved the
movie and is now reading sever
al books a week and study ing for
a high school equivalency
degree. Lee said.
Other groups commemorated
the anniversary of Malcolm X's
assassination across the city In
the Harlem section ol Manhat
tan. members of the Black
Nation marched to the Audubon
Ballroom, where Malcolm X was
allegedly gunned down by
members of the Nation of Islam
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