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Title: Los Angeles police officer instructing other policemen in aikido training class, 1966
Contributor: Brown, Frank Q
Date Created and/or Issued: June 1, 1966
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4147
Description: Officer Bob Koga shows other policemen at a special school how to use aikido to remove a seated demonstrator without injuring him. Koga applies pressure behind "demonstrator's" ears, above, then quickly grabs arm and twists wrist below. At right is Officer Bernard Finks, head of Civil Disturbance-Riots Control school. In role of sit-ins, from left, are policemen Ron Meade, Robert Calentino and Gary Garrison.
Type: Image
Format: b&w negative
Identifier: uclalat_1429_b575_232849
ark:/21198/zz0002v2h3
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Education
Riot control--California--Los Angeles
Police training--California--Los Angeles
Aikido--Training--California--Los Angeles
Government
Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Dept
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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