King witness says
LAPD retaliated
NATIONAL
LOS ANOKl.KS (AP) — A SWAT tarn
supervisor < launs ho was relieved of
teaching duly at the Police Academy for
testifying us a use-of-foru1 export that the
Kortnev King floating was justified.
"I didn't sav one word on the witness
stand that wasn't gospel truth that couldn't bo doc umented.
Sgt. Charles I. Duke said Tuesday. "The department is cover
ing up "
L.t. John M Dunlin, a police spokesman, declined comment
because the matter is under review.
Duke filed n grievance against the Police Department short
ly ufter he was informed in March that he no longer could
teach use of-force policy to offic ers He was officer in charge
of the Police Academy's physical training unit, and currently
supervises a SWA 1 team
Superiors told him he was "out of synch" with the use-of
force polic y. Duke said Tuesday.
The teaching ban followed Ins testimony at the state trial
of four officers charged in King's Marc h I. 1991. beating and
i ante six days before Duke was to testify at the offic ers' feder
al c ivil rights trial
At both trials. Duke contradicted testimony from other
I.APD witnesses (or the prosecution and said he felt the baton
blows and kicks given King met polic e polic \ bee a use King
was i limitative
The offtc ers were at quilted in the state trial, hut two subse
quently were c onvie ted in federal c ourt of violating King s c iv
il rights
"Our position is that they took retaliatorv at lion against
him."said Hank Hernandez, an attorney for the Police Protec
live I.eague. wine h filed an unfair labor prat tn e complaint
with the city's Employment gelations Hoard
An I.APD review of Duke's federal trial testimony found Iasi
month that it "contains critical! mispert options of the c in urn
stances surrounding the Rodnev King arrest, the department s
use-of Ion e policy and general operational police
"The degree of force used in the King inc ident was not pis
lifted." the review c oncluded
Gunman filmed at target practice
I.O.N ANGFI.KS (AIM The
gunman who shot up o Smi
Francisco law firm in a deadly
rampage was videotaped target
shooting two weeks ago. and the
i ameromnn said he was quiet
hut mentioned his distaste for
attorneys
Gian l.uigi Fern also tried to
adjust a semiautomatic pistol to
make it shoot faster, the man
who videotaped him recalled
Wednesday
The 41-year-old amateur cam
eraman. who lives in suburban
Woodland Hills, spoke on con
dition of anonymity, lie said he
didn't want his name assoc oil
ed with Inst Thursday's tragedy,
in which eight died and sis were
wounded before Ferri shot him
self to death
The i ameraman. a gun enthu
siast. said he met Ferri at two
gun shows m Fas Vegas and
Anaheim. Calif , in May before
tlics went target shooting in the
Mojave Desert
I |iist met him OH a ( ouple of
o( i asions and |ttst remember
him as a lug. heawset man." he
rei ailed He just seemed like a
quiet and polite guy He really
didn't talk much I couldn't tell
that he was unstable
On June IH. the cameraman
and a friend went with Ferri to
the desert north of I .os Angeles
and met for breakfast before the
bourlong target practice.
“I went to the restroom and he
(Ferri) was talking to my buddy
and he told him he didn't like
attorneys." the cameraman said
in a telephone interview
He said Ferri brought two
9mm semiautomatic pistols
called Tech-9s to the practice.
He remembers jokingly asking
Ferri if hi* was "going to pla>
Steven Seagal in ’Under Siege
In the action movie. Seagal por
trays a one-man artnv fighting
terrorists taking over a nuclear
warship
The cameraman said it
appeared that Ferri. 55. had
some knowledge of firearms and
shot about 100 to 150 rounds at
empty food (ans they had set up
for practice.
"He was trying to adjust the
hellfire switch that makes it
shoot a little faster." he said.
Kerri’s rampage 13 days later
in a San Francisco high-rise
office building began at the law
firm Pettit & Martin, where some
of the victims worked. A frus
trated businessman. Ferri left a
rambling letter blaming food
additives, the layv firm and oth
ers for his woes.
First woman fighter pilot ends training
HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE. N M (A(’) — 1st
i.i Jennnie Flvnn wrapped up seven weeks of train
ing Wednesday to lie tin* first female Air Force fight
er pilot the same wav she Imgan — surrounded by
the media.
"Given my choir e, I would have come in low
profile,'' Flynn said
Flynn leaves Thursday for vs,iter survival train
ing in Florida Indore moving on to Luke Air Forc e
Base in Arizona, where she will spend about sev
en months learning to fly the 1 -1SK Strike Eagle,
the world's most advanced lighter-attar k cure.rail
"She's a great officer, a great Amern an and t er
tain to be a gn*at fighter pilot," said Brig Gen Lloyd
"Fig" Newton, c ommander at Holloman, whir h has
two other women pilots beginning fighter training
Flynn. 2f>. began training at Holloman in mid
May. shortly after Defense Secretary l.es Aspin
ordered the military services to drop restrictions on
women flying combat missions.
Flynn acknowledged that the initial attention she
got made it a hit difficult to settle in. “But it was
something that was unavoidable." she said
She requested an assignment as an F-15 pilot
upon graduating lirst in iier pilot training ( lass at
Texas' I.aughlin Air Force Base in January.
But since Air Fort e po!i< \ at the time did not
allow women to fly combat aircraft, she had to opt
for another assignment.
Aspin's dec ision changed her future, although
Flynn, who was promoted from 2nd lieutenant last
week, doesn't know where her career will take her
"Truthfully." she said, "1 take- this one assign
ment at a time."
Study shows class differences affect Americans’ health
BOS TON (Al’) The poor and ill-odu
< ated are losing ground to people who am
Belter off oven as the lives of all Amnri
i ans gel longer, a slink found.
Though dnath rates have de< lined
among all social classes sim e the 1‘Wills,
those who have finished high si huol and
earn al least moderate livings are doing
Better, researchers said ( lass appears to
lie an int reusinglv important determinant
of health for men and women. ImiIIi him k
and white
The study in Thursday's New hnglaild
Journal of Medic me raises questions
about whether ( hanging the nation's
health tare s\ stem will red in e the dis
parities
Different es in death rate* between the
classes increased between and 14Hf>.
a time when Medu aid programs were set
up to improve access to cars* for the poor,
researchers found.
"The data provide an important cri
tique for the health < are reform propos
al. said Dr C.regorv Pappas, who dins t
ed the study. "The implication is that
even in a perfectly equitable health care
svstem, these problems will persist
An editorial published with the study
agreed that the I lass differences in death
rates i annot lie explained simply In liet
ter ( are for the privileged.
"Despite the importance of so< ioeCO
nomic status to health, no one knows
quite how it operates." wruii' !)r Matt ia
Angel), the journal's exec utive editor "It
is perhaps the most mysterious of the
determinants of health
Poppas, a rese.trt her it the National
Center for Health Statistics, based his
findings on two nationwide health sur
veys that covered 44,2 lb Americans
betyveen ages 2.'> and t>4 in 1’tHti He com
pared the results with a similar study
i ondiu ted in t'tftti
Pappas found that over the 2(>-year
period, the differences in mortality rates
attributable toedutailion levels increased
In over 20 percent in women and dou
bled in men
Among white men who did not finish
high m hool. there werti nine deaths lor
every 1.000 people in 1960. This had fall
en to 7.6 by I960 However, for white
male t ollege graduates the decline was
much sharper — from V7 deaths to 2.H
Similar comparative statistics are not
available for white women and blat ks
However, the 1986 survey shows the
sharp difference in mortality rates that
persist
The figures show there were t 4 deaths
per 1.000 people among w hite women
who failed to finish high school. 13 4 tor
blue k men and 6.2 for black women
Among t ollege graduates, the death rates
were 1 H for white women, six for black
men and 2 2 for black women.
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