POP/ROCK - April 11, 1991

Thanks, Anyway: Plans to use the widely seen footage of Rodney King’s beating by LAPD officers in an upcoming music video by rap group Bytches With Problems have been dropped. Amateur cameraman George Holliday had second thoughts Wednesday about the group using his famous videotape for their new music video “Wanted,” which is about police brutality and racism. “When George saw that the storyboard and lyrics were so anti-police, they blast the Police Department, he decided to withdraw the video,” said Jim Dobson, Holliday’s publicist. Holliday had been offered $1,000, but no money was exchanged and the deal was contingent on final lyric approval by Holliday.