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Apr 29, 2022 · Corbis via Getty Images. A man walks past a burning building during the Los Angeles riots. In April of 1992, after a jury acquitted the police officers involved in the beating of Rodney...
March 3, 1991 image taken from video by George Holliday in Los Angeles shows the Rodney King beating. Former Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates, who resigned in the wake of 1992 rioting that followed the Rodney King beating trial, has died say police. He was 83.
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Apr 26, 2017 · Ron Eisenbeg/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images. Twenty-five years ago this week, four Los Angeles policemen — three of them white — were acquitted of the savage beating of Rodney King, an...
- Racial Tensions Rise in Los Angeles
- The Rodney King Beating
- The L.A. Riots
- Violence Spreads Rapidly
- Los Angeles Begins to Recover
- Aftermath of The L.A. Riots
- LAPD Slowly Reforms
The 1980sbrought rising unemployment, gang activity, drugs and violent crime to the poorer neighborhoods of Los Angeles. Aggressive efforts to exert control by the Los Angeles Police Department fostered a belief among minority communities that its officers were not held liable for abusive police actions. In August 1988, as part of LAPD Chief Daryl ...
Early on March 3, 1991, an intoxicated parolee named Rodney Kingled police on a high-speed car chase before stopping in Lakeview Terrace. His subsequent beating, which left him with a fractured skull and cheekbone, was caught on video by Lakeview resident George Holliday, who forwarded it to local station KTLA. Within days, the footage of police re...
At about 3:15 p.m. on Wednesday, April 29, the jury released their verdict: All four officers were acquitted of charges in the King case, save for a mistrial on one charge against Powell of excessive force. The response was immediate, as protesters took to the streets. Hundreds of people gathered at the Los Angeles County Courthouse to protest the ...
In a matter of hours, neighborhoods across South and Central Los Angeles were in flames as rioters firebombed thousands of buildings, smashed windows, looted stores and attacked the Parker Center police headquarters in downtown L.A. By the end of the day, CaliforniaGovernor Pete Wilson had declared a state of emergency and ordered the activation of...
By May 2, with 6,000 National Guardsmen bolstered by the addition of another 4,000 federal troops and Marines, the disorder had largely quelled. An estimated 30,000 people marched at a peaceful rally for Korean merchants, and volunteers began cleaning up the streets. Meanwhile, arraignments began for some 6,000 alleged looters and arsonists. Highwa...
The final tally for the L.A. riots included 2,000 injuries, 12,000 arrests and 63 deaths attributed to the uprising. Upwards of 3,000 buildings were burned or destroyed and 3,000 businesses were affected as part of the $1 billion in damages sustained by the city, leaving an estimated 20,000 to 40,000 people out of work. At the conclusion of the rio...
Attention was also focused on the culpability of the city’s law enforcement. On May 11, former FBIDirector William H. Webster was named to head an investigation into the LAPD response during the riots, and in late June embattled Chief Daryl Gates stepped down. In October, the commission issued a report that criticized both the LAPD and City Hall fo...
Apr 28, 2022 · Two years before George Holliday recorded Los Angeles police officers beating Rodney King, indisputable video evidence of police brutality brought hope that justice was on the horizon.
Apr 13, 2022 · Apr 13, 2022, 2:18 PM PDT. The LA riots began on April 29, 1992, after four police were found not guilty for the beating of Rodney King. LA photographer Ted Soqui covered the riots over...
