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Fires during the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion. (Photo by Gary Leonard, Los Angeles Public Library) Onlookers watch as a building burns, 1992. (Photo by Gary Leonard, Los Angeles Public Library) Fire fighters attempt to put out the burning La Mancha shopping center, 1992. (Photo by Gary Leonard, Los Angeles Public Library)
Cannon, Lou, Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD, Basic Books, 1999. Gibbs, Jewelle Taylor, Race and Justice: Rodney King and O.J. Simpson in a House Divided, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996.
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- Before The Rodney King Verdict
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- After The Rodney King Verdict
March 3, 1991: California Highway Patrol officers pull over Rodney King for speeding on a Los Angeles freeway. King, who was on probation for a robbery conviction, exited the freeway and stopped in front of an apartment building in the San Fernando Valley community of Lake View Terrace. Los Angeles Police Department officers took over the traffic s...
Nov. 15, 1991: Shopkeeper Soon Ja Du is convicted of voluntary manslaughter for the killing of Latasha Harlins. She could have been sentenced to 16 years in prison, but the judge placed her on probation. The light sentence for the Black teen's shooting death came a week before a Los Angeles County court case involving cruelty to a dog ended with a ...
April 29, 1992: The jury acquits the four officers after seven days of deliberations on almost all charges. Jurors deadlocked on one assault count against Powell. April 29, 1992: Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley calls the verdicts "senseless." "The jury’s verdict will never blind the world to what we saw on the videotape," Bradley says. April 29, 1992...
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Apr 18, 2017 · Home. Topics. 1990s. Los Angeles Riots. By: History.com Editors. Updated: April 20, 2021 | Original: April 18, 2017. copy page link. Print Page. David Butow/Corbis via Getty Images.
20th Century, 20th Century America. On 3 March 1991, police engaged in a high-speed car chase with Rodney King, who was intoxicated and had been caught speeding on the freeway. After an...
Sep 18, 2013 · Gov. Pete Wilson declares a state of emergency and calls in National Guard troops. Time Life Pictures/Getty Images. A rioter breaks a glass door of the Criminal Courts building in downtown Los...
