The biggest of his life, in fact. The figure his lawyers were throwing around was eleven million, but many observers believed he could get more than that, if he and his legal team played their cards right. Two of the LAPD’s finest had beaten Andrews senseless nine months earlier out in Woodland Hills, trying to take him in on a spousal abuse charge without having to kill him first, and the black man was now suing the department and the city which funded it for all his injuries were worth. And what injuries he had. A broken pelvic bone, one shattered kneecap, a broken left eye-socket, and three broken teeth, two upper, one lower. Witnesses said when the cops brought him into County/USC Hospital prior to booking, he looked like somebody the tanks had run over in Tiananmen Square. On the surface, it appeared to be the Rodney King fiasco all over again, except that this time, no one had been around with a handy camcorder or cell phone to record Andrews’s beating for posterity, leaving certain aspects of it open to debate.
