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After all, when it comes to health coverage, you shouldn't be worried sick about not being perfectly healthy. even want to look at the tape until they had gotten their money," he said. Frustrated, he said, the family went to the media, and "went to all the local channels, but Channel 4 was the one that jumped on it" "I think they're just planning to hype this more than O.J. Simpson," said one news executive at a rival station, a prediction that was at least partially borne out when KNBC ran parts of the videotape about 10 times in 20 minutes during its 4 p.m. newscast Wednesday.

The station also showed the beating three times on one promo. In 1991, after George Holliday shot his videotape of the police beating of Rodney G. King, a flap also erupted over use of the tape, but for far different reasons. In that instance, Holliday, a plumbing company supervisor, sold his tape exclusively to KTLA-TV Channel 5 for $500. KTLA fed the tape to Cable News Network, with which it has an affiliate agreement, stipulating that CNN embargo the footage to all other Los Angeles stations.

KTLA wanted at least one more night of exclusive local coverage. However, KNBC got a copy of the tape through KPNX in Phoenix, a station that Is both a CNN and NBC affiliate. Holliday filed a $100-million lawsuit for copyright infringement against CNN, ABC, CBS and NBC for what he said were unauthorized telecasts of the tape. The suit was ultimately dismissed. Some news officials questioned KNBC's strategy, especially because Guizar insisted on making the tape widely available.

They also downplayed the relative sig' nificance of the incident compared to the beating of King. BEATING Continued from A9 paid administrative leave by the department Wednesday, after the broadcast of the videotape on KNBC-TV Channel 4, which paid Soltero's godmother $125 for the rights to the tape. 'Compton Police Chief Howie Taylor said Jackson, 33, has had "a mjnirnal disciplinary record" during hiB six years on the force. He was suspended for one day in 1991 for an off-duty incident of conduct unbecoming an officer but has no other violations in his personnel record, police said. Police would not reveal further details about the violation.

has received four written commendations during his career. In March, 1991, he was commended for showing restraint in use of force during an arrest. Guizar attributed the brutality of the beating to the fact that his client is "Hispanic and Hispanic in appearance" and to what he said was a statewide climate of racism against Latinos and immigrants. Guizar also invoked the memory of the beating of motorist Rodney G. King by Los Angeles police.

King was beaten after a car chase in 1991. Others rejected the idea that the incident was racially motivated. Jackson is black. Compton Mayor Omar Bradley acknowledged that there are tensions between the area's African Americans and Latinos. But, he said, the beating was not related to those tensions.

"Any suggestion this was racial is nefarious," he said. Allen Field, the deputy district attorney who heads the office's Special Investigations Division, said his office has begun checking the circumstances of the incident. He said he has seen nothing "that makes me believe this was racial in nature." FBI spokesman John Hoos said the results of his agency's preliminary investigation will be forwarded to the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division in Washington and to the U.S. attorney's office here "for a prosecutable opinion." A source familiar with the case said Beth Rodriguez, a county children's social worker, went to the trailer in the 1900 block of West 156th Street in Compton on Friday after an abuse complaint against Manuel Shigala, 41. Shigala was arrested Saturday in connection with the complaint, but charges were not pursued and he was released Wednesday, sheriffs officials said.

By GREG BRAXTON and SHAWN HUBLER TIMES STAFF WRITERS LOS ANGELES-The threats of KNBC Channel 4 to sue any news organization that uses a videotape showing a Compton police officer beating a youth sparked a flap Wednesday among local news officials, who criticized the station's hardball tactics; Meanwhile, the boy's lawyer undercut the debate by saying that he will make the tape available to the district attorney and the media. KNBC officials said they had paid $125 in an exclusive deal Tuesday with Maria Quintana, who shot the videotape. In a statement issued Wednesday, Mark Hoffman, the station's news director, warned news organizations against using the footage. KNBC had broadcast the tape extensively during the previous evening's newscasts. "You may be contacted by an individual unaffiliated with KNBC-TV circulating a copy of the videotape for broadcast," Hoffman said in the statement "Please be aware that neither he nor anyone else has been authorized in any way to license or otherwise distribute this material.

Only KNBC-TV may authorize any other party to use or license this material. You are hereby on notice that to use this videotape in any manner would violate NBC and KNBC-TVs exclusive rights to this material." But Humberto Guizar, the attorney representing the youth, said Wednesday that he had the original tape and that he would make it available to investigators and allow journalists to view and copy it Guizar said the tape had been shot by "a godmother to one of the siblings" from inside a trailer nearby. KNBC "threatened me," Guizar said, "but I didn't enter into a contract with them. They said they have exclusive rights. But their contract wasn't with me." Guizar said the tape ended up in the hands of Channel 4 only after the family struck out with the legal community.

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