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The L.A. Riots | 1. The Tape

Slow Burn

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KTA News Director Saragena You Knowe, We Don't Want to Stir the Pot Too Much

Kto a didn't know the identity of the man being beaten in george holiday's video. An l p d spokesman told the station that it was impossible to look at a video tape tell precisely what the justification was. Once we aired it, all hell broke loose. The phones immediately started ringing in k t la's newsroom. Many of those calls came from local competitors asking, where did you get that? Who shot it? We'd never been confronted with something like this before. This was way outside the norm of breaking news"

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