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07-09-2002, 11:16 PM
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INGLEWOOD, California (CNN) -- The FBI is conducting is own investigation of the videotaped beating of a handcuffed black teenager in this Los Angeles suburb, officials said Tuesday.
The amateur videotape of the Saturday incident, which aired on local and national television Monday, shows a white police officer throwing Donovan Chavis, 16, against a police car and punching him in the face.
An attorney for Chavis described the teen as a developmentally disabled special education student with no arrest record who did not understand what was happening, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The incident also is under investigation by the city's police department, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the district attorney's office.
Inglewood Mayor Roosevelt F. Dorn told dozens of protesters who showed up Tuesday at city hall demanding a meeting that the officer should be fired.
Dorn said he had ordered the suspension of Jeremy Morse, a three-year veteran of the police force. No action has been taken against three other officers and two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies at the scene.
"In my city, this type of conduct will not be tolerated," Dorn said to cheers from the protesters. "It is my opinion that he should be fired."
more here (http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/07/09/police.beating/index.html)
INGLEWOOD, California (CNN) -- The FBI is conducting is own investigation of the videotaped beating of a handcuffed black teenager in this Los Angeles suburb, officials said Tuesday.
The amateur videotape of the Saturday incident, which aired on local and national television Monday, shows a white police officer throwing Donovan Chavis, 16, against a police car and punching him in the face.
An attorney for Chavis described the teen as a developmentally disabled special education student with no arrest record who did not understand what was happening, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The incident also is under investigation by the city's police department, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the district attorney's office.
Inglewood Mayor Roosevelt F. Dorn told dozens of protesters who showed up Tuesday at city hall demanding a meeting that the officer should be fired.
Dorn said he had ordered the suspension of Jeremy Morse, a three-year veteran of the police force. No action has been taken against three other officers and two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies at the scene.
"In my city, this type of conduct will not be tolerated," Dorn said to cheers from the protesters. "It is my opinion that he should be fired."
more here (http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/07/09/police.beating/index.html)