A Los Angeles judge declared a mistrial yesterday in the case of the white police officer accused of beating Donovan Jackson, a young African American man.

The hung jury voted 7 to 5 in favor of convicting officer Jeremy Morse. The jury included one African American. Morse’s former partner, Bijan Darvish, was found not guilty of filing a false police report.

Morse was caught on video last year slamming Donovan Jackson into a patrol car after stopping his father to check his license plates. Morse and Darvish could have received three years in prison if convicted.

If OK’d by the District Attorney, a retrial would begin on September 29. The trial was the city?s highest profile police brutality case since the beating of Rodney King in 1991.