According to news reports, one of the Los Angeles policemen accused in the videotaped beating of Rodney King taunted him at the hospital by jeering, "We played a little hardball tonight, and you lost." When the four officers arrived last week in Los Angeles County Superior Court to plead not guilty to charges stemming from the incident, someone in the courthouse crowd yelled, "The hardball game is over."
In fact, it is just beginning. One city council member, Michael Woo, has demanded the resignation of police chief Daryl Gates. Even the cautious Mayor Tom Bradley suggested that Gates must retire "before...
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