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Aug 21, 2024 · 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.
The 1992 Los Angeles riots (also called the South Central riots, 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.
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 · 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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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...
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Apr 27, 2022 · Banks: Thirty years later, does commemorating L.A. riots help heal old wounds or reopen them? South L.A. was promised a resurrection after 1992. The new boom could leave many behind
