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Tom Owens, a former Los Angeles Police Department police officer wrote Lying Eyes: The Truth Behind the Corruption and Brutality of the Lapd and the
Beating of Rodney King. According to Kirkus reviews, the book is “an
inside look at the Rodney King case, the ensuing trials, and the L.A. riots that followed, by the private detective hired
by King's attorney to investigate the police officers' conduct and provide security for the beleaguered beating victim. A
former L.A. policeman, Owens does not claim to tell ``the Rodney King story,'' but rather, with the help of Hollywood writer
Browning, to give ``the factual version.'' In reviewing his own 12 years on the LAPD (he's oddly vague as to dates, when he
resigned and why, what he did prior to opening his agency, etc.), he contends that the violence demonstrated by the officers
that night in March 1991 is systemic, and that there is a ``code of silence'' that helps ``explain the attitudes of some of
the officers'' caught in the act on George Holliday's now famous videotape.”
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