Lying Eyes: The Truth Behind the Corruption and Brutality of the LAPD and the Beating of Rodney King

by Thomas S. Owens, Rod Browning, Tom Owens

Book Overview

A scathing indictment of the Los Angeles Police Department and its role in the Rodney King case. An ex-marine and ex-cop reveals the difficult truths he discovered and enormous changes he underwent in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560250747
• ISBN13: 9781560250746
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Hard-hitting look at the Rodney King Case

This book doesn't pull any punches in reporting the facts surrounding the Rodney King case, the incident that led to it, and what happened afterward. As a former LAPD officer and a private investigator, the book's author, Tom Owens gives an objective look at one of the most contraversial cases in our nation's history, reporting the facts that he collected.

in-depth knowledge of a man who worked with rodney king

I was generally glued to this book, although the technicalities of the workings of the LAPD left me lost or vacant, at times. I had the rare occasion to work with the author for six weeks during an Army public relations tour in Nicaragua, and his insights into life in the LAPD and life, as a cop, in general, furthered to set the stage for the book. Tom Owens is a well-read, knowledgeable man in workings of life as a private dectective and cop. I wouldn't want him investigating me!

A factual presentation

A Taste of reality, set in the days of Mississippi, and for the southern states. Man's Inhumanity to Man kind.