No charges filed against officer in LA beating case

Friday, February 4, 2005

LOS ANGELES -- Prosecutors announced Thursday they will not file charges against a police officer who was videotaped clubbing a car-theft suspect with a flashlight in a case that evoked comparisons to the Rodney King beating.

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