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Bookmark or Share- LA riots: How 1992 changed the police - BBC NewsThe Los Angeles riots erupted on 29 April 1992 after four white police officers were acquitted over the videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King. Anger led to days of looting and...
- Los Angeles Riots - 1992, Cause & Rodney King | HISTORYThe 1992 Los Angeles riots—also called the Los Angeles uprising—sprung from years of rising tensions between the LAPD and the city’s African Americans, highlighted by the 1991 videotaped...
- What Were the L.A. Riots? - The New York TimesWhat Were the L.A. Riots? By The New York Times Magazine April 28, 2022. Share full article. 23. In 1992, L.A. went to war with itself. The violence lasted a week, but its causes...
- Los Angeles Riots of 1992 | Summary, Deaths, & FactsLos Angeles Riots of 1992, major outbreak of violence, looting, and arson in Los Angeles that began on April 29, 1992, in response to the acquittal of four white Los Angeles policemen on all but one charge (on which the jury was deadlocked) connected with the severe beating of an African American motorist in March 1991.
- 1992 Los Angeles riots - WikipediaInjuries. 2,383. Arrested. 12,111 [2] [3] Damage. $1 billion. The 1992 Los Angeles riots (also called the Rodney King riots or the 1992 Los Angeles uprising [4] [5]) were a series of riots and civil disturbances that occurred in Los Angeles County, California, United States, during April and May 1992.
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