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King
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lice had not intervened.
He said he was lying face
down, trying to cooperate when
officers leaped on him and “one
of them applied pressure like he
was trying to snap my wrist in
half." He said he screamed in
pain, and then heard someone
shout “Back!"
“They all backed away from
me and Tm still on the ground
waiting to be handcuffed and
shortly after that I was shocked by
a laser."
Asked what the stun-gun darts
felt like when they hit him, he
said, "I got shocked and it felt like
my blood was boiling inside of
me."
"I got shocked and it
felt like my blood was
boiling inside of me/'
-Rodney King
Moments later, as he was on*
the ground, he said, he heard the
shout: '“We're going to kill you
nigger, run!'"
“I ran closer to the Hyundai
(his car) and I was struck across
the right side of the face again,"
King said pointing to his temple.
"To this day there is a bump right
here."
Kowalski asked what King
heard while being clubbed and
kicked.
"I'm not exactly sure but I
heard while they were hitting me
chants of 'killer, nigger, how do
you feel killer?"'
He was asked whether he truly
remembered the officers say "nig
ger" or "killer." King said he
wasn't sure.
Outside court, defense attorney
Harland Braun noted that no oth
er witness had reported hearing
racial epithets, so King couldn't be
believed.
"His case will rest and fall on
the question of whether there
were any racial epithets," Braun
said.
Under cross-examination. King
acknowledged that after the beat
ing he erroneously told his parole
officer he hadn't been drinking or
"I'm not exactly sure
but I heard while they
were hitting me
diants of 'killer,
nigger, how do you
feel killer?"'
-Rodney King
running from police. King said he
lied because he feared he would
go back to prison for a parole vio
lation. King will return to court
Wednesday for more cross-exami
nation.
If convicted of all charges, the
defendants could be sentenced to
10 years in prison and fined
$250,000.
A trial in state court ended last
April on acquittals on nearly all
charges for Wind, Officers Lau
rence Powell and Theodore
Briseno and Sgt. Stacey Koon.
Within hours, Los Angeles
erupted into three days of rioting,
killing more than 50 people and
causing about $1 billion in dam
age.
Easterwood
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The item was approved 4-2 by
councilmembers Larry Catlin,
Hank McQuaide, Marc Hamlin
and Mayor Marvin Tate. Coun
cilmembers Kandy Rose and
Rudy Schultz did not approve the
funding request.
Rose said the funding demon
strates continued cooperation be
tween Bryan and A&M, but the
city needs to know what facilities
will be improved.
"I have trouble with the coun
cil giving Texas A&M money
when we haven't been given de
tailed plans," she said. "Bryan
has never given $100,000 to an en
tity where we haven't seen de
tailed plans."
She also said giving A&M the
money is in conflict with Bryan's
own airport. Coulter Field.
Councilmember Schultz agreed
and said before Bryan gives
$100,000 to Easterwood Airport,
improvements should be made to
Coulter Field. He said funding
should be compromised between
the two airports.
"Whatever funds we have
available, I believe it would be
best for Bryan, it would be wiser,
if we split the money between
Coulter Field and Easterwood,"
he said.
The city of College Station has
already agreed to provide
$100,000 for airport improve
ments. However, Rose said it
makes sense for College Station to
provide the money because the
city will collect taxes on sales, car
rentals and hanger fees.
She said Bryan will not receive
a direct return on its investment
because the city will not collect
property taxes or other types of
taxes on the land.
Hamlin agreed but said, "East
erwood Airport an asset to Bryan,
but one we can't put a monetary
value on."
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