“The good people are at home and what you have out there are people who wanted an excuse to steal,” said Daryl F. Gates in an interview televised during the 1992 Los Angeles riots ...

LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) Daryl Gates, the lightning rod Los Angeles police chief whose career will be forever linked to Rodney King and the city's deadly 1992 riots, has died after a short battle with ...

LOS ANGELES — Daryl F. Gates, the polarizing former police chief whose 14-year tenure ended amid widespread criticism over his department’s response to the city’s deadly 1992 riots ...

Daryl F. Gates, the blunt former Los Angeles police chief who waged war on violent gangs and skirmished with city leaders until his handling of the Rodney King police beating and ensuing riots ...

Daryl F. Gates, the polarizing ... into early retirement after the riots. He was credited with developing the policing plan that brought off the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics with not so much as ...

Former Police Chief Daryl F. Gates cast a long shadow ... and ended with his forced resignation following the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Through it all, he was an extraordinarily polarizing figure.

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Daryl Gates, chief of police in Los Angeles during the 1992 riots that tore apart much of the city, has died, the Associated Press reports. It gets that word from Los Angeles Police Department ...

LOS ANGELES — Daryl F. Gates, the blunt former Los Angeles police ... his handling of the Rodney King police beating and ensuing riots forced him to retire, died Friday of cancer.

LOS ANGELES — Daryl F. Gates, the polarizing former police chief whose 14-year tenure ended amid widespread criticism over his department's response to the city's deadly 1992 riots, died Friday ...

LOS ANGELES -- Daryl F. Gates, the polarizing former police chief whose 14-year tenure ended amid widespread criticism over his department's response to the city's deadly 1992 riots, died Friday ...

LOS ANGELESLOS ANGELES — Daryl F. Gates, Los Angeles’ police chief during the city’s deadly 1992 riots, has died after a short battle with bladder cancer. He was 83. The Police Department ...