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Jul 30, 2020 · It was May 1982 when LAPD Chief Darryl Gates called UCLA cardiologist Dr. Richard Allen Williams with a question. Gates had a “hunch” that Blacks were dying more frequently from chokeholds ...
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Apr 29, 2017 · After the release of the Rodney King video, LAPD Chief Daryl Gates is questioned by the LA City Council. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe ...more.
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Daryl Francis Gates (born Darrel Francis Gates; August 30, 1926 – April 16, 2010) was an American police officer who served as chief of the Los Angeles Police Department from 1978 to 1992. His length of tenure in this position was second only to that of William H. Parker.
Dec 18, 2009 · Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates talking to the media on live television on the following morning of the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, in the wake of the Rodney King beating verdicts on the four...
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Daryl F. Gates, the rookie cop who rose from driver for a legendary chief to become chief himself, leading the Los Angeles Police Department during a turbulent 14-year period that found him struggling to keep pace with a city undergoing dramatic racial and ethnic changes, died Friday.
6 days ago · We bid farewell to Daryl R. Gates (Marion, Ohio), whose journey of life gracefully concluded on May 24, 2024 at the age of 72. Daryl touched countless lives with warmth and kindness, leaving behind cherished memories that will forever echo in hearts.
It was May 1982 when then Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates called Dr. Williams and asked him to validate a theory that Black men’s necks were anatomically different than whites. Gates had a “hunch” that Blacks were dying more frequently from chokeholds because their veins or arteries didn’t open up as fast as “normal people.”
