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My research aims to provide a broader understanding for how the 1992 Los Angeles riots unraveled, newspapers’ portrayals of the event, and examine how the different public narratives fit within a greater historical context. During the 1992 Los Angeles riots, news media widely documented the outbreak of violence and destruction.
Feb 14, 2024 · The 1992 Los Angeles riots. Publication date. 2014. Topics. King, Rodney, 1965-2012, Rodney King Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1992, Racism -- California -- Los Angeles, Police misconduct -- California -- Los Angeles, African Americans -- California -- Los Angeles, Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Race relations. Publisher.
Jun 24, 2024 · On April 29, 1992, protest and violence erupted almost immediately after the jury—composed of 10 whites, a Hispanic, and an Asian—acquitted the officers of charges that included assault with a deadly weapon and excessive use of force (though the jury was deadlocked on the excessive-force charge against one of the policemen).
The Insurrection Act has not been used since the riots of 1992, but the possible dep loyment of federal troops on Ameri- can soil was again a topic of conversation this year when protests and rioting erupted over the killing of a Black man, George Floyd, by a white police offi cer in Minne sota.
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Abstract. Chapter 7 takes up the political unintelligibility of the 1992 Los Angeles (LA) Riot/Rebellion to understand—if not why the riots remain unintelligible to us as political contestation of political conditions— how this unintelligibility is produced and what significance it bears for us now. While riots (and race riots in particular ...
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May 18, 2021 · In LA in 1992, the police needed to keep the gang war alive. If there was peace in the community, and no need for the war on gangs that had shaped policing strategies in Los Angeles for nearly a...