Dennis Romero of the LA Weekly reports: A friend of 19-year-old college student Ronald Weekley says he was beat up by overzealous LAPD officers in Venice on Saturday. The confrontation was captured on video. The friend, Alexis Parker, says Weekley was trying to avoid gangsters on the other side of the street when police asked…

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