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Stacey Cornell Koon (born November 23, 1950) is an American convicted criminal and former policeman with the Los Angeles Police Department. He is one of the four policemen who were responsible for beating Rodney King in March 1991.
Jun 16, 2020 · Stacey Cornell Koon is a former LAPD sergeant, who gained much critical attention in the wake of the Rodney King incident. In March 1991, Rodney King was observed driving a white Hyundai Excel over 100 miles per hour, by a Highway Patrol officer.
Mar 2, 2023 · Two of the four officers, Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell, were given guilty verdicts (via History) and served 30 months in prison for their crimes (via Time). After his stint in jail was over in 1995, Koon was released into a halfway house, and a potential assassin discovered he was there and came to kill him, resulting in a standoff with ...
Apr 20, 2012 · Stacey C. Koon, an LAPD sergeant at the beating scene, was acquitted in state court but was one of two officers convicted of federal civil rights violations. He served 30 months in prison...
In his 1992 book, Presumed Guilty: The Tragedy of the Rodney King Affair, Koon further defended his actions and blamed the riots on the media and community leaders. A year...
Apr 26, 2017 · In 1993, Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell, two of the four officers in the King case, were found guilty of violating King's civil rights. They both served 30 months in prison and did not return...
Feb 1, 2016 · The videotaped beating of Rodney King by officers of the Los Angles Police Department on March 3, 1991 led to one of the most significant and well-known official misconduct/police beating cases in the history of the Criminal Section, receiving international attention.
Jun 10, 2020 · Here now, from October 1992, Sgt. Stacey Koon. Six months after this interview, Stacey Koon and Officer Lawrence Powell were convicted in federal court of violating Rodney King’s civil rights, and were sentenced to 20 months in prison. Stacey Koon is 69 now and stays largely out of the public eye.
Powell is charged with assault with a deadly weapon, use of excessive force, and falsifying his police report. The other officers involved are Stacey Koon (who is alleged to have directed his other officers to attack King and attempted to conceal the crime) Timothy Wind, and Theodore Briseno.
Apr 18, 1993 · Sgt. Stacey C. Koon--a coolly confident police officer who has rarely shown any hint of emotion through two criminal trials--sat stoically as the clerk to U.S. District Judge John G. Davies...
