Chavez then played a four-minute tape of what he said were conversations among current and retired members of the Venezuelan military discussing whom they could count on to support a movement against the presidential palace.

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Four people who heard the tape told the newspaper that at least two firefighters -- Battalion Chief Orio J.

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The beating of Mr Denny was a long delayed reaction to another brutal beating, in March 1991, also caught on video-tape: that of a black motorist, Rodney King, by four white police officers.

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Al-Jazeera said the tape was 15 minutes long and it excerpted more than four minutes of the "newsworthy" portions for broadcast.

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