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FILE - This April 13, 2012 file photo shows Rodney King posing for a portrait in Los Angeles. King, the black motorist whose 1991 videotaped beating by Los Angeles police officers was the touchstone for one of the most destructive race riots in the nation's history, has died, his publicist said Sunday, June 17, 2012. He was 47. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file)

Rodney King case led to major LAPD reforms

Andrew Blankstein, Paul Pringle Los Angeles Times

Last updated Monday, June 18, 2012 - 10:26am

LOS ANGELES - Daryl F. Gates was in his 13th year as head of the Los Angeles Police Department when four of his officers pummeled Rodney King on a darkened roadside in the Lake View Terrace neighborhood of L.A.

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Figuring out how to avoid another Reno air crash

Dan Weikel, Paul Pringle, Ralph Vartabedian Los Angeles Times

Last updated Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 2:25pm

RENO, Nev. -- Ambulances were parked on the tarmac, ready for an accident. Inspectors from the Federal Aviation Administration were milling around Reno-Stead Airport, looking for safety risks.

The potential for trouble was so high that the National Transportation Safety Board sent investigators to the National Air Racing Championships just in case something went wrong.

All the attention was focused on the possibility that a pilot could die, the kind of grim outcome that had occurred 19 times in the past. But nobody expected the scale of disaster that unfolded Sept. 16, when a World War II-era P-51 Mustang plunged into spectators and killed 11 people.

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