on april 29, 1992, the seventh day of jury deliberations, the jury acquitted all four officers of assault and acquitted three of the four of using excessive force. the jury could not agree on a verdict for the fourth officer charged with using excessive force. the verdicts were based in part on the first three seconds of a blurry, 13-second segment of the videotape that, according to journalist lou cannon, had not been aired by television news stations in their broadcasts.