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It was the first significant military occupation of Los Angeles by federal troops since the 1894 Pullman Strike, and also the first federal military intervention in an American city to quell a civil disorder since the 1968 King assassination riots, and the deadliest modern unrest since the 1980 Miami riots at the time, only 12 years earlier.
Apr 22, 2024 · United States. Los 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.
Apr 18, 2017 · The 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...
Sep 18, 2013 · The riots over five days in the spring of 1992 left more than 50 people dead, and more than 2,000 injured. The rioting destroyed or damaged over 1,000 buildings in the Los Angeles area.
Apr 28, 2022 · For me, the 1992 riots were a war I saw unfolding firsthand in South Los Angeles, Koreatown and other neighborhoods, as crowds raced across intersections and mini-malls were consumed in...
Apr 28, 2012 · The 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...
May 6, 2022 · May 6, 2022. Long Beach’s Woodrow Wilson High School campus. Kirby Lee/Associated Press. On the second day of the 1992 riots, Woodrow Wilson High in Long Beach was the scene of a terrifying...
