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Analysis. Smith interviews Joe Viola, a television writer. Viola recounts where he was when the riots first began. He had just mailed his daughter’s registration forms to Berkeley and was standing at a street corner when the first cars arrived.
Joe Viola is a television writer who recalls dropping off his daughter’s registration forms for Berkeley and witnessing a car pull up with a kid inside toting a nine-millimeter gun and making threats. Viola recalls… read analysis of Joe Viola
Apr 20, 2017 · LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles erupted into the most destructive civil disturbance in US history on April 29, 1992, and the 25th anniversary is being marked by six documentaries exploring the roots and lingering impact of the LA riots. All include the 1991 videotaped footage of a group of white police officers relentlessly beating unarmed ...
Apr 28, 2022 · In 1992, Héctor Tobar was a young reporter at The Los Angeles Times when the city erupted in violence. What really happened — and what didn’t?
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Apr 20, 2017 · LA’s violent uprising of 1992 returns to TV 25 years later. By SANDY COHEN. Updated 11:47 AM PDT, April 20, 2017. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Toward the end of “L.A. Burning,” a new documentary about the fiery and deadly 1992 Los Angeles riots, a man who lived through the turmoil issues an ominous warning about the future.
Apr 26, 2017 · The L.A. riots began April 29, 1992, exactly 25 years ago Saturday, following the acquittal of four Los Angeles Police Department officers in the videotaped beating of Rodney King.
