Former LAPD Chief Daryl Gates talks about the Rodney King incident, the consent decree, police-chief politics, his decision to eliminate hats in the department's uniform policy, and his comment to a reporter about the carotid restraint that caused controversy during a May 2009 interview with Los Angeles Times columnist Patt Morrison.
In the interview, Gates calls the Christopher Commission that recommended reforms following the King incident and riots that followed "perhaps the biggest fraud that's ever been perpetrated on this city" that were designed to "get rid of me."
