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Date: 11 Aug 1999
Time: 01:57:57
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Parts of this magazine story about Fuhrman.
Don't know about you but it seems to me that Fuhrman was blaming his violence because his marriage was breaking up.
JUSTICE: PAST MEETS PRESENT F. LEE BAILEY TRIES TO REGAIN A FORMER GLORY, WHILE MARK FUHRMAN MAY HAVE GOT A RAW DEAL
The allegations against Fuhrman, first reported in the New Yorker and Newsweek last summer, consist mainly of comments he made to psychiatrists when he was suing the city to receive permanent disability pay owing to job-related stress. Discussing rage and depression he claimed to be experiencing while dealing with violent gang members and other "slimes and assholes,"
Fuhrman made an aside about "Mexicans and niggers" he encountered during military service. Though Fuhrman now denies making the racial slurs during the psychiatric sessions, he was clearly a man in distress. He acknowledged to the doctors that his work in an antigang detail in East Los Angeles and foot patrols in the downtown area between 1977 and 1981, years in which his second marriage was collapsing, made him feel increasingly violent and out of control. He was in fact sued during this time for beating a suspect, although the case never went to trial. The other main allegation against Fuhrman, that he allegedly spoke to former real estate office worker Kathleen Bell about burning "all the niggers," is said to have occurred in 1985; Bell is now reluctant to testify.
--Reported by Elaine Lafferty and James Willwerth/Los Angeles and Andrea Sachs/New York Copyright 1995 Time Inc. ELIZABETH GLEICK, JUSTICE: PAST MEETS PRESENT F. LEE BAILEY TRIES TO REGAIN A FORMER GLORY, WHILE MARK FUHRMAN MAY HAVE GOT A RAW DEAL. , Time, 03-27-1995, pp 65+.