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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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During the Los Angeles riots in the spring of 1992, while one war was breaking out in the streets of America's largest city, another war was ending.
A workmate lent me this focused on racial tensions among employees at a Los Angeles bank after the Rodney King trial riots.
During the Watts riots is Los Angeles in 1965, he helped calm racial unrest in San Diego.
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Pete Trengle,
Bass Player
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David now records for Scotti Brothers records and even wrote the song adopted officially by the city of Los Angeles after the riots of 1992.
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John Carthy,
Gun Shop Sales Assistant
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Remember that when Los Angeles had hot weather, we had the Watts riots, and the Negroes came out to violate the law, to shoot at the firemen, to set fire to their buildings, to act as though they were insane.
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Rob Verdann,
Afterdark Removalist
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Watching the Los Angeles riots on TV, Gibson shrugged despondently when he saw the looters stripping a Radio Shack store of TV sets and tapedecks.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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Like a father who'd been a policeman in Los Angeles during the Watts Riots, or a grandmother who had homesteaded during the Oklahoma Land Rush, or a father who had fought in the Korean War.
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Thomas Owens,
Police Officer
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In 1992, riots again engulfed Los Angeles for days after a jury failed to convict police officers for the beating of motorist Rodney King.
Riots break out in Los Angeles, sparked by the acquittal of four white police officers caught on videotape beating Rodney King, a black motorist.
Christopher served as chairman of the independent commission of the Los Angeles Police Department that proposed reforms of the Department in the aftermath of the Rodney King riots.
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Jordan Jones,
Rapper
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I was watching CNN during the riots of Los Angeles a couple of years ago and they were showing video footage of a mob looting a Radio Shack.
How Rodney King and the riots changed Los Angeles and the LAPD is shown graphically bypolitical writer Lou Cannon, who illuminates the characters and events surrounding what went wrong in L.
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