Daryl F. Gates, 1926-2010

Daryl F. Gates, the former Los Angeles police chief who once suggested that black people were more likely to die from chokeholds because of clogged arteries and whose mea culpa for his department’s poor handling of the Rodney King riots was, “Clearly that night we should have gone down there and shot a few people. In retrospect, that’s exactly what we should have done. We should have blown a few heads off,” has died at the age of 83.