A Look At Prominent Figures In 1992 Riot, Where They Are Now

Others have gone on quietly with their lives in the 25 years since a jury acquitted four white police officers in the videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King. On the third day of the uprising, King went on TV to plead for calm, asking in a trembling voice, "Can we all get along?" In subsequent years, he was arrested numerous times, mainly for alcohol-related crimes. Acquitted of criminal charges at his state trial, Koon was later convicted in federal court of violating King's civil rights and sentenced to 30 months in prison. Briseno, who stomped on King's back during the beating (he claimed to keep King on the ground so the beating would stop), broke ranks with his fellow officers and sharply criticized their actions. Gates had been Los Angeles' chief of police for 14 years when the rioting erupted, and he was pressured to retire shortly afterward. [...] he was nationally respected for pioneering such policing innovations as the special weapons and tactics (SWAT) team and the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) programs that partner police with schools. [...] he also was despised in the city's black community over perceived racism and remarks like one he made that blacks were more likely to die when placed in police chokeholds because their arteries did not reopen as quickly as those of "normal people." The Korean grocer's killing of a 15-year-old black girl, Latasha Harlins, in a dispute over a bottle of orange juice, raised tensions in the black community just two weeks after King's beating. The white truck driver who drove into the epicenter of the riots as they were just beginning was pulled by several black men from the cab of his big rig and beaten nearly to death as millions watched in horror on live TV. After the beating, he publicly forgave his attackers and even met with one of them, who publicly apologized. [...] he has remained steadfastly out of the spotlight, living quietly in Ari

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