Displaying 1 of 1 1994 Format: Book Author: Owens, Tom, 1948- Title: Lying eyes : the truth behind the corruption and brutality of the LAPD and the beating of Rodney King / Tom Owens with Rod Browning. Edition: 1st ed. Publisher, Date: New York : Thunder's Mouth Press ; Emeryville, Calif. : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c1994. Description: xviii, 282 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Subjects: King, Rodney. Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Department. Police -- California -- Los Angeles -- Complaints against. Police corruption -- California -- Los Angeles. Other Contributor: Browning, Rod. Notes: Includes index. LCCN: 93046101 ISBN: 1560250747 OCLC: 29548086 System Availability: 1 # System items in: 1 # Local items: 1 # Local items in: 1 Current Holds: 0 Place Request Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Trade Reviews Publishers Weekly ReviewAs Owens, a private investigator who worked for the Rodney King defense, observes here: ``Almost everyone associated with this case is now a former this or ex-that.'' The list includes L.A. police chief Daryl Gates and King's lawyer Steve Lerman--who has yet to compensate Owens. Milt Grimes, Lerman's replacement, has also been dilatory about paying Owens, resulting in a still unresolved suit and counter-suit. That element of griping, legitimate but ultimately tedious, pervades Owens's book, coauthored with Hollywood screenwriter Browning. Not surprisingly, there are no heroes: King is characterized as ``self-destructive'' and juvenile; the LAPD as callous; George Holliday, whose videotape of the 1991 beating thrust the case into the public eye, as intent on maximizing his video-licensing profits with myriad suits against TV stations that aired his tape without permission. Given the media coverage of the King case, one doubts that there are many readers who will learn anything new here, or even want to rake through these events again. Photos. (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved Librarian's View Displaying 1 of 1
