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A national police group is asking the U.S. Justice Department to investigate televised remarks made by an Oklahoma
City man after a videotaped beating by police of a suspect. Steve Young, national president of the Fraternal Order
of Police, called for a federal investigation into comments by Sean Baker that, Young says, advocate violence
against police officers.
Baker, a member of the Oklahoma City chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, made the remarks
after two police officers were caught on videotape striking Donald R. Pete more than two dozen times during an arrest.
At a news conference after the videotape was shown, Baker said: "It's getting to the point now where the community is outraged and
beginning to think they have to take to the streets and begin retaliating. Of course, we don't want that to happen, but I think the only
message the police officers will understand is when they have to start passing flags to the wives and paying some death benefits.
Nothing else has worked."