Texas cult continues standoff
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FBI snid Titesdnv
WACO, Texas (AP) — Thu
increasingly volatile leader of
n hwiivilv armed cult vacil
lates from belligerence to
peacemaker in negotiations
to end a 10-dov standoff, the
The FBI had been portraying the talk* a* positive
but on Monday Iwgan disi ussuig what it called
"the dark side" of cult leader David Koresh, who
claims his name is "the sumatne of God."
FBI agent Bob Kit ks said Tuesday Koresh is
moving along "two irreconcilable lra< ks" - one
peaceful, one not.
Ricks said the FBI was ready for whatever force
Koresh might use.
“We have sufficient firepower, if we t hose, to
completely neutralise this situation a! any
moment," Ricks said. "We do not choose to do
that."
At least four of the Army's Abrams main battle
tanks were rolled into position around the Branch
Davidinn compound Monday after Koresh boasted
he had enough fire power to blow lighter armored
personnel carriers "40 to 50 feel into the air I be
67-ton tanks do not have ammunition but offer
protection for law officers.
The FBI said early in the siege, after four federal
agents were killed in a failed raid on Feb. iiH. that
it v\ .i% not planning to storm the compound Ri< ks
repeated ih.it pledge today, as did Bureau of A It o
hoi. Tobai co and Firearms director Stephen Hig
gins.
"We're prepared to stay there for a long time
IndefinitelyHiggins said on NB( s ' Iodav pro
gram.
At midday, a white sheet appeared outside one
of the windows of the compound The signifu ant e
of the sheet was not immediately known, hut a
Dallas radio station said it had broadt ast only min
ules earlier an np|««d to cult members to give some
sign if they wanted help
M.HS produt «rr Julie Van Dielen said the station
suggested over the air that "if Kuresh wanted our
help and c ould hear us," to hang a white sheet out
the window
Also ! uesday. tvvo elderly women who c.amct
out of the compound with the c hildren last week
were released from custody. Ric ks said They wen
first charged with murder, but those charges were
quit kly dismissed and they had heen held since
March 2 as material witnesses Kicks said they
were released into the custody of a trustworthy
person
koresh has told negotiators he has been prepar
ing for a fight sine e lliHr> and at times seems eager
to provoke another gun battle to fit i i 111 his a pot a
lyptic prophet u-s
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si at*? trial, acquittals and t h r«*«?
days of deadly rioting.
King. 27. said the officers
asked at one point how he felt.
"I said I felt fine. I didn't want
them to know what they were
doing to me was really getting to
me I didn't want them to have
the satisfaction "
Under questioning hy prose
cutor Barry Kowalski. King
insisted he never resisted arrest
and suggested that a woman
state Highway Patrol officer who
first tracked him down for
speeding could have handcuffed
him if Los Angeles police had
not intervened.
He said he was lying face
down, trying to cooperate when
officers leaped on him and "one
of them applied pressure like he
was trying to snap my wrist in
half ." He said he screamed in
pain, and then hoard someone
shout “Back!"
"They all backed away from
me and I'm still on the ground
waiting to be handcuffed and
shortly after that 1 was shocked
by a Tasor "
Asked what the stun-gun
darts felt like when they hit him,
he said. "1 gut shocked and it felt
like my blood was boiling inside
of me."
Moments later, as he was on
the ground, he said, he heard the
shout: "We're going to kill yoti
nigger, run!"'
“1 ran closer to the Hyundai
(his car) and I was struck across
the right side of the face again."
King said pointing to his temple
"To this day there is a bump
right here."
Kowalski asked what King
heard while being clubbed and
kicked.
"I'm not exactly sure but 1
heard while they were hitting
me chants of killer, nigger, how
do you feel killer?"’
‘I didn't want them
to know what they
were doing to me
was really getting
to me. I didn't want
them to have the
satisfaction.’
Rodney King,
alleged police brutality victim
Me was asked whether he
truly remembered the officers
say "nigger” or "killer." King
said he wasn't sum.
Outside court, defense uttor
nuy Harlond Braun noted that
no other witness hud reported
hearing racial epithets, so King
couldn’t !h> believed.
"Mis case will rest and full on
the question of whether there
were any racial epithets," Braun
said.
King directed most of his
comments to the jury, using his
hands for emphasis At first he
seemed nervous, licking his lips,
but as his narrative continued he
appeared to grow (aim.
Me recalled being taken to a
hospital, then being transferred
to vet another hospital in a
police car. Me said an officer,
previously identified as defen
dant Timothy Wind, sat in the
buck seat with him.
"1 was bent over in the back
seut of the police car from the
pain. Mi kept snatching me by
the collar of the shirt ond saying,
Stay with me now. stay with
me ' ... It was very painful from
the injuries and I wanted to curl
up."
Upon arrival, he said. "We
were walking into the hospital
and one of the police who
walked mo in said. 'Oh. he's on
PCP. I said. Why do you keep
saying that?'"
King admitted he had too
nim.li to drink rhat night hut
said he has never taken K'J’ and
had not used marijuana for some
time Indore the I mating
He recalled the next morning
as painful and confusing alter he
awakened in the jail w ard of I os
Angeles County USD Medical
Conter
I was having trouble remem
bering exac tly what went on but
I know for sure I was attac ked by
police officers." he said.
King acknowledged that the
night of the heating he had been
drinking w hile wate lung a has
ketball game on television, and
admitted to speeding going
about 75 mph to 80 inph.
A convicted robber who
served jail time. King said lie
didn't pull over bee.uuse be was
afraid he would lie going Isu k to
prison.
Before King's testimony, two
defense lawyers disc losed out
side the jury's presence that
King tested positive for cocaine
and heroin use cn the months
after his beating and asked to
question him and liis doctors
•bout it.
But when doctors took the
stand, drug questions were not
asked.
However on cross-examina
tion. two defense attorneys
opened the door to damaging
testimony from a doctor who
said King's injuries were caused
by baton blows to the head.
■'Someone suggested it could
be from a fall to the pavement
That is out of the question." Dr
Charles Aronberg. chief of oph
thalmology at Cedars Sinai Med
ical Center testified
Defense attorney Stone
acknowledged outside court it
was "one of the c lassie, screw
ups."
• If convicted of all charges, the
defendants could be sentenced
to 10 years in prison and fined
$250,000.
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