Riots break out in Los Angeles after four police officers were acquitted in the beating of Rodney King. (385 hits)

Riots break out in Los Angeles after four police officers were acquitted in the beating of Rodney King.
This Day in Black History: April 29, 1992

After a jury acquitted four police officers in the 1991 videotaped beating of Rodney King, a Black motorist, widespread riots broke out in South Central Los Angeles. Violence and looting persisted for six days in the largely Black and Latino neighborhood, with property damages estimated at $1 billion. Fifty-four people were killed and thousands more were hurt in the melee. Over a year earlier, on March 3, 1991, King had been involved in a high-speed chase down a Los Angeles-area freeway. Following the chase, a bystander captured video of four officers — four white and one Latino — repeatedly beating and kicking King as he lay on the ground and released the video to a local news station, sparking national furor over police brutality and racism in America.

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This Day in Black History: April 29, 1992 https://www.bet.com/article/bqoj1e/this-da... Posted By: Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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