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Guilt are the very ones that have brought the situation about the way it is. in 82 when they had the choke hold into place and the police was talking about a moratorium. >> the lapds force policy had gone from just grunting and grabbing to what you see in the video which is stand back, use your baton as an impact weapon. >> the city council and community at large made this decision on their own and they battled with it. and the result is rodney king. >> the lapd use these and they serve as like ...

And the crime was so high you spent all your time just going from call to call to call. we didnt have radios when we got out of the car, so if you were in the projects and something went sideways, somebody shot at you, you were on your own. >> los angeles police call their gang sweep technique "the hammer." >> whats operation hammer? >> operation hammer was you sweep into neighborhoods, make lots of arrests and then leave. >> every weekend they would just have the mass arrests of black and brown...

1,000 officers and just blanket a whole part of the city and make arrests. most of the arrests didnt result in felony complaints, felony charges, people going to court. so in hindsight it may have made the community feel good, but it really didnt change the dynamic on the street. >> in those days lapds reputation was frightening. if im in a community where i got 1,000 cops coming at me and everybody is getting arrested for jaywalking, that doesnt feel good. >> i do think l.a.s posture was aggres...

Warning shots dont come near the store. if there were lapd present there were no need or necessity. but lapd decided to abandon the community. >> i was standing inside the lobby with some members of the police commission. sometime early in the evening they began to look for gates who was missing. turned out later he was at a fund-raiser for police reform. >> the los angeles police departments are not in evidence here at all, so they apparently have decided its best to allow whatever is happening...

Obviously be pro-police. >> i wrote the motion to get the case moved out of l.a. county. and the point was it had become a referendum on the lapd. if you think the lapd are racist and treat blacks badly youll vote guilty. nobody wanted to point out that, hey, weve got to get the case out of l.a. county because were going to get a predominantly black jury in downtown l.a. >> those blows from officer powell and officer wens batons continue and continue for no just reason. >> rodney king rose to hi...