LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dee Young remembers April 29, 1992, the way many Americans recall Sept. 11 — it’s etched in his memory as the day his world changed forever. The 27-year-old tow-truck driver had stopped at a popular South Los Angeles fast-food joint that afternoon when he saw hordes of angry people carrying armloads of booze from a liquor store next door. He later learned he was witnessing the beginning of one of the worst race riots in American history, and it was unfolding in the neighborhood where he rode bikes and flew kites as a child. The violence erupted after four white police officers were acquitted in the beating of black motorist Rodney King, which was captured on video the previous year.

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