An edition of Lying eyes (1994)

Lying eyes

the truth behind the corruption and brutality of the LAPD and the beating of Rodney King

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An edition of Lying eyes (1994)

Lying eyes

the truth behind the corruption and brutality of the LAPD and the beating of Rodney King

1st ed.
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Former Los Angeles Police Department officer Tom Owens reveals the difficult truths he discovered and enormous changes he underwent in his two-year investigation of police misconduct on behalf of Rodney King.

In this excoriating firsthand account, Owens carries the reader through his investigation, often in riveting step-by-step detail, to reveal previously undisclosed information from his personal files. He finds his former employer guilty of institutionalized racism, brutality, and systematic manipulation of evidence.

Lying Eyes offers a rare personal insight into Rodney King the man, including his responses to Owens' earliest interviews with him. Working in close quarters with Rodney King, Owens depicts a "quiet, shy, hulking man" whose victimization continues to this day.

A cry of outrage from the center of the storm, Lying Eyes exposes manipulation by and of the media, political influence and interference, and abuses of power at all levels of government. Owens reviews the histories of violence of the accused, the Simi Valley trial, the resulting riots in which 51 died, and the subsequent federal convictions of Stacy Koon and Laurence Powell, sentenced to a federal facility know as "Club Fed".

An insider's view of police life, from training at the Los Angeles Police Academy to the scorn of his former friends, this is a personal story of trust betrayed and a far reaching testimony of deception, violence, and anger.

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Language
English
Pages
282

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Lying eyes: the truth behind the corruption and brutality of the LAPD and the beating of Rodney King
1994, Thunder's Mouth Press, Distributed by Publishers Group West
in English - 1st ed.

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Edition Notes

Includes index.

Published in
New York, Emeryville, Calif

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
364.1/322/0979794
Library of Congress
HV8148.L55 O94 1994, HV8148.L55O94 1994

The Physical Object

Pagination
xviii, 282 p. :
Number of pages
282

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1434253M
Internet Archive
lyingeyestruthbe00owen
ISBN 10
1560250747
LCCN
93046101
OCLC/WorldCat
29548086
Library Thing
721512
Goodreads
384669

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