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Jeez! Look at this! The LA cops are looking to get tnhe
*original* tape of the beating obviously so they can
accidentally lose or damage it, and the videotaper fears for
his life since it looks like those cops are going to teach him
a lesson for filming the police beating. Check out the LA
district arrotney threatening the poor guy on the radio!

This is the typical US big city cop routine. They should be
kicking the ass of the rogue cops for beating the crap out of
someone for 'buying gas while black' but instead they go after
the photographer to kick his ass.

Stalin would be proud of them.

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Subpoena issued for man who taped beating
Authorities try to obtain original tape

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/07/11/police.beating.radio/index.ht
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July 11, 2002

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- The Los Angeles County
District Attorney's office is convening a grand jury to look
into the police beating of an African-American teen-ager that
was caught on videotape as prosecutors struggle to get the man
who shot the tape to cooperate with the investigation.

Tensions related to the incident were illustrated Wednesday in
a terse exchange between Chief Deputy District Attorney Curt
Livesay and Mitchell Crooks on the "John and Ken Show" on KFI
radio in Los Angeles.

The amateur tape -- shot by Crooks from a hotel across the
street from the incident -- showed a handcuffed Donovan
Jackson, 16, being slammed onto the trunk of a patrol car,
then hit in the face by an Inglewood police officer.

Authorities are interested in obtaining the original videotape
to see what it shows. Law enforcement officials have insisted
that the altercation was started by Jackson, but attorneys for
the father and son disputed that claim, saying the incident
was provoked by deputies and was racially motivated.

Crooks was discussing the tape on the syndicated radio program
that airs from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. (6 p.m. to 9 p.m. EDT), when
the hosts also brought on the deputy district attorney:

-- John and Ken Show: "So, has the police ever looked at (the
original tape)?"

-- Crooks: "No."

-- John and Ken Show: "Are you going to give it to them?"

-- Crooks: "Sure, I mean, I'm not going to give it to them,
but I'm going to allow them to have a copy of it. I'll show it
to them. I just want to make sure that I have an attorney
present. I have talked to a couple of people with the ACLU
..."

-- John and Ken Show: "Well, we have a chief deputy DA for Los
Angeles County on the line here, I think has something to add
to this. Curt Livesay, welcome to the 'John and Ken Show.'
Curt, Mitchell is on the line here. I assume you're up to
speed on what we were discussing."

-- Livesay: "I think so, I haven't heard the entire
conversation, but Mitchell, let me assure you that there's a
grand jury subpoena for you and I suggest that you honor it
and you show up at the criminal courts building. That's
downtown, 210 West Temple, and you be here promptly at 8:30
[Thursday] morning at the grand jury. That's the 13th floor of
the building."

-- Crooks: "Well, I hope the city of L.A. rallies behind me,
because I don't have anybody, you know what I mean?"

-- John and Ken Show: "What do you mean rally behind you? What
do you want people to do?"

-- Crooks: "They're just coming after me, because I shot the
video. That's basically what this is boiling down to now. I'm
fearing for my life. They're going to kick my ass in the cell
or take turns on me probably."

-- Livesay: "Mitchell, Mitchell, this is Livesay, DA's office.
We want you before the grand jury. We don't want you in a cell
somewhere. We want you before the grand jury and we want that
original tape."

-- Crooks: "OK, wonderful, I already talked to you about that.
I don't know why we have to go on air to talk about this sort
of thing. I totally told you that and I've told everybody that
I've talked to that I'm willing to cooperate with everybody. I
want the best possible outcome, except for Jeremy Morse
(police officer seen hitting the teen-ager in the video)."

-- Livesay: "OK, Mitchell, off the air, I want you to tell my
investigators, who are standing by at this station, where you
are, right now. If you want to cooperate -- off the air -- you
tell DA investigators the address where you are right now."

-- Sound of phone hanging up heard.

-- John and Ken Show: "Who hung up there?"

-- Livesay: "Well, it must have been Mitchell."

-- John and Ken Show: "I guess the answer was no."

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