Tuesday
Jul202004
Cover Up-- Reporter Claims Tape of LAPD Beating was Edited
Tuesday, July 20, 2004 at 03:12PM
Unedited tape Shows More Police Blows
The complete and unedited nine-minute tape of the June 23 pursuit and arrest of Stanley Miller by LAPD officers shows that he took a beating from the cops -- after receiving the 11 flashlight blows. The world was shown only a one-minute portion of the tape. No one except LAPD higher-ups has seen what happens after that. KABC-TV news reporter Scott Reiff, in the Air 7 helicopter, continued to tape the incident until Miller was placed into police car number 569. the complete tape, which vividly depicts the following: After Miller is on the ground, subdued, kicked and hit 11 times by Hatfield, most of the swarming cops get off him. But the prone, handcuffed man is inexplicably jumped on again, like a loose football, by seven of the eight officers present, and kicked again by another one. [more]
Different Version of Beating Emerges [more
The complete and unedited nine-minute tape of the June 23 pursuit and arrest of Stanley Miller by LAPD officers shows that he took a beating from the cops -- after receiving the 11 flashlight blows. The world was shown only a one-minute portion of the tape. No one except LAPD higher-ups has seen what happens after that. KABC-TV news reporter Scott Reiff, in the Air 7 helicopter, continued to tape the incident until Miller was placed into police car number 569. the complete tape, which vividly depicts the following: After Miller is on the ground, subdued, kicked and hit 11 times by Hatfield, most of the swarming cops get off him. But the prone, handcuffed man is inexplicably jumped on again, like a loose football, by seven of the eight officers present, and kicked again by another one. [more]
Different Version of Beating Emerges [more